April 20, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE Victorian duck shooting season bears no likeness to the annual shooting parties held on country piles across the United Kingdom. Both versions are...
April 13, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
FEW actors were better-looking than the late Richard Chamberlain. Like the late Jean Simmons, he, too, was absurdly beautiful. On coming face-to-face with either...
April 6, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
TO suggest the government’s new bail laws mark a sweeping reform is a preposterous misnomer. They are, for the greater part, a restoration to...
March 30, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
IT is impossible to believe the moving of Saturday night football from free-to-air to streaming television is exactly what the followers wanted! According to...
March 23, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is an essential institution. It belongs to the Nation. It symbolises the collective voice and values of the people....
March 16, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE morality of a nation is determined by the way it treats its animals, its children, and its old people. Sadly, Australia, and much...
March 9, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
NEVER was local government more important than in the present. It is an essential representative body for the successful implementation of methodologies and protocols,...
March 2, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
IF the ugly encounter between Australian professional soccer player Sam Kerr and the English police officers were in the reverse, and the police officer...
February 23, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE greater the distance from one’s date of birth, the more one is inclined to reflection. The photograph of an Australian soldier who died...
February 16, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
“TO retire, or not to retire”, that is the question. For some the prospect of ending paid employment is their worst nightmare. For others,...
February 9, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
RACISM — the inability or refusal to recognise the rights, needs, dignity, or value of people of particular races or geographical origins, is, by...
February 2, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
DONALD Trump is President of the United States of America. He is, arguably, fortified with the collective Might and Power of that country, the...
January 26, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
TO celebrate Australia Day on January 26, the date on which the British invaders came ashore and claimed possession (terra nullius February 7) at...
January 19, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
BELATEDLY, I have made two New Year resolutions: I intend to be more intolerant, and much less perfect! Please, allow me to explain! Like many,...
January 12, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
HOW quickly the years pass! I am jealous not of success, but I am covetous of those opportunities which now present for those starting-out...
December 8, 2024
From the desk of oland Rocchiccioli
THE recent VicPol, state-wide, Neighbourhood Policing Forums were initiated to allow senior police command to meet, and discuss concerns and challenges, with residents, stakeholders,...
December 1, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE controversy surrounding the casting of the lead character in the stage musical, Kinky Boots, is an indicator of how attitudes have changed —...
November 24, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
TO posit Ballarat is less safe, or more dangerous, than other locations in Australia would be an overstatement — a serious misnomer. The challenges...
March 10, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli for 10 March
When I acquired my little cottage in Ballarat I hoped for fairies at the bottom of the garden. That would have been perfection.
BE...
February 29, 2024
Four stars, plus one more for Sandy the dog!
The Lyric Theatre production of the stage musical, Annie, is playing at the Civic Hall.
Annie is based on the popular, 1924 comic strip,...
February 25, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 25 February
The Premier of Victoria Jacinta Allan delivered to the State Parliament, and all those Victorian children who suffered institutional abuse, a superbly measured and...
February 11, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 11 February
The ABC is an important broadcasting institution. It is the voice of the people. It must be impartial, unfailingly. THE increasing inclination of journalists to...
February 4, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 4 February
It was simple: you worked a second job - usually in the hospitality industry; saved a 10 per cent deposit; met with your bank...
January 26, 2024
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli – 26 January
If you will: exercise your imagination! If a hostile nation were to invade Australia and claim possession, and then you were expected to celebrate...
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