November 9, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THERE is something disagreeable about those who choose to burn the Australian Flag. It smacks of an ugly hostility and an alarming disrespect for...
November 2, 2025
RR 31/10
TELEVISION coverage showing Victoria police being attacked with rocks, glass bottles, and rotten fruit, is cause for every Victorian to reflect; to declare —...
October 26, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
COLES’ chief executive, Leah Weckert, has urged Premier Jacinta Allan to legislatively target shop-lifters as retailers prepare for Christmas trading. Ms. Weckert was one of...
October 19, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 recognises the key role of councils in improving the health and wellbeing of people in their municipality....
October 12, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE Ballarat Victoria Police Neighbourhood Policing Forum — October 15 — invites local services and community members to engage with police and to discuss...
October 5, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
IT is not alarmist to speculate: without additional financial security there exists a real possibility the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute will cease to function in...
September 28, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
CAVEAT Emptor — let the buyer beware! If the financial proposal sounds too-good-to-be-true, it is highly probable it is a scam. You should turn...
September 7, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
CHILDREN retaliated, chanting: “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me!” Patently, times have changed and the use of...
August 31, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
IT is difficult to imagine a more unsuitable choice of entertainer for the 2025 AFL Grand Final than American rapper, Snoop Dogg. Public evidence...
August 24, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
GIVEN, we are what we are, by performance, the second-guessing of other people’s responses is problematic. Daringly, and knowing my late mother’s empathy with...
August 17, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
WAR is not the opposite of peace. War is the collapse of civilisation. It is fear disguised as courage; a formulated process of inculcation...
August 10, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
SOCIAL media is problematic. Everyone must be held accountable for destructive, antisocial behaviour. If Wayne Carey dared subject two women to the same cyber-bullying...
August 3, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
ANYONE 75 or older, is, according to the federal Health Department, the Cancer Council of Australia, and the bowel screening facility, too old to...
July 27, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
AUSTRALIA'S appointment of a federal Special Envoy to combat antisemitism is to be celebrated. In the same spirit with which Saint Paul commends Corinthians...
July 20, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
ONLY a fool would believe there are two points-of-view: yours and the wrong one! Always, one should always look to the source. The opposing...
July 13, 2025
From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli
THE pursuit of financial patronage for the purchase of the Ballarat Neil Street performing arts complex (BPAC) is a challenge which has hampered all...
July 6, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
VICTORIA Police did not create, nor is it responsible for, the crime rate. It is counterproductive to blame them for society’s every supposable malaise....
June 29, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
PROBABLY, in this linguistically draconian age of political correctness, a double entendre might be lambasted as a form of sexual harassment. Removing the extremist...
June 22, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
There is much wisdom in knowing when to speak-up and when to employ a stoney silence; equally, it is imperative in life to “pick-your-battles”...
June 15, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
A REMINDER to Liberal and National party politicians: In most workplaces you are reasonably entitled to two consecutive days of sick leave without needing...
June 8, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE excellent notion to convert Ballarat’s erstwhile Neil Street Uniting Church into a permanent creative and performance space — Ballarat Performing Arts Community (BPAC),...
June 1, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE social media penchant for liking and disliking, and posting and reposting — and all the multifarious computations associated with the wretched habit —...
May 25, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
THE clamour has ceased! To the victor — the spoils; to the vanquished — Vae victis — woe. We have witnessed the rise and...
May 18, 2025
From the desk of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
ARE we so busy — so self-obsessed, we have not the time to queue? The self-checkout facilities available in supermarkets have more to do...
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