May 31, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
AFTER four years in Ballarat Inspector/Acting Superintendent Jason Templar has been transferred to Geelong. Ballarat has been well served by Templar’s tenure. His commitment...
May 24, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
PAULINE Hanson owned and operated a fish-and-chip shop in Ipswich. I wager they were the best in Ipswich! She was married at sixteen, a...
May 17, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
I wager — London to a brick — Bob and Betty Basic and Uncle Tom Cobley and all — could not give a tinker’s...
May 10, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
V/LINE is a disgrace! The daily overcrowding problems which so bedevil regional commuters are not a direct consequence of the Iranian/American war. To be...
May 3, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary — later Queen Elizabeth II — was born at 2:40 am 21 April 1926 at 17 Bruton Street, Mayfair. Elizabeth...
April 26, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
VICTORIA is currently witnessing a calculated assault on the rule of law, perpetrated by a generation of offenders who have effectively weaponised their youth....
April 19, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE wilful criminal act of tethering a sentient creature to the tow bar of a vehicle and dragging it to a barbaric death is...
April 5, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
OVER time, Easter has been erroneously marketed as a secular ‘holiday’ season—a suitably placed four-day break early in Spring—which disregards its ancient genesis. For...
March 29, 2026
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
FOR the majority, the fiscal minutiae of government is bamboozling. We trust in the pecuniary stratagems of elected representatives and public servants. It is...
March 22, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
VICTORIA Police did not lead us into our current social malaise. We managed it alone. It is the police who have been left to...
March 8, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THERE are those fleeting moments when one wonders — figuratively — “if the lunatics are in charge of the asylum!” What exactly, one ponders,...
March 1, 2026
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE scenario is so ominous it might easily be the plot of an American, B-grade, 1950s horror movie! Imagine: in less than 100-years many...
February 22, 2026
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
SHAKESPEARE wrote of the Roman senators in his play, Julius Caesar: "Let me have men about me that are fat, / Sleek-headed men, and...
February 15, 2026
From the office of Roland Rocchiccioli
It is both wrong and regrettable to alienate Crown land thought "surplus to requirement". What is deemed surplus in 2026 will — in all...
February 5, 2026
From the office of Roland Rocchiccioli
***ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI banner, please*** A Nation can be rated by the way it treats its animals and its elderly. Australia fails miserably on too many...
January 18, 2026
from the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE Prime Minister is to be commended for his decision to call a Royal Commission into anti-Semitism and the consequences of the Bondi massacre. It...
January 4, 2026
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THERE was a time in Australia when single men, women, and students lived in all-found boarding houses. They were not doss houses. They were...
December 28, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
AS a child it never occurred there would be another century other than the 20th. I was born before the middle of that century....
December 21, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
CHRISTMAS is a holy and religious observance. The nativity is one of the two great Christian festivals. It marks the birth of the boy...
December 14, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE annual Royal Melbourne Philharmonic's Carols in the Cathedral — Victoria's premier concert of traditional Christmas music, carols, and readings — will be staged...
December 7, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
POLITICS has become too politicised is not an oxymoron. Politicians are more focused on staying-in-power than they are about serving the people. Their capacity...
November 30, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE time is ripe to stop asking: “What are the police doing about it?” and to start asking: “What are the politicians and the...
November 23, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
IT was when the BBC was the exemplar of broadcasting. It fashioned a universally mirrored touchstone for impartiality. During WW2 it was the defiant...
November 16, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
IT is impossible to suppose how Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — having been stripped of his royal Style, Titles and Honours — must have felt when...
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