{"id":87271,"date":"2023-01-22T14:13:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T03:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/?p=87271"},"modified":"2023-01-25T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T03:30:25","slug":"from-the-desk-of-roland-rocchiccioli-22-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/from-the-desk-of-roland-rocchiccioli-22-january\/","title":{"rendered":"From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli \u2013 22 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>As a child &#8211; and to my consternation &#8211; I was constantly being threatened: \u201cIf you don\u2019t behave yourself, young man, I\u2019ll send you to a reformatory school!\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PARADOXICALLY, and apropos of nothing, my later mother, Beria, turned to me one day and said, \u201cIt\u2019s a funny thing, but I can\u2019t remember you ever being naughty when you were a child!\u201d She was about 90 at the time, and I recognised there was nothing to be achieved by reminding her of her ominous threat. Little did she realise, it did bother me at the time &#8211; greatly.<\/p>\n<p>My anxiety was exacerbated by Beria\u2019s mercurial nature. While she was a caring mother, she was not beyond leaving me to stay with other people if it suited her wont, and for extended periods. My parents were divorced, and during the week I lived with Beria, and her third husband. Weekends were spent with my father. Beria\u2019s impetuosity proved a constant source of concern, and irritation, for my father. To his enduring credit, never once did he comment on her behaviour to me, or my sister.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I found on Trove a Laverton Court report on the front page of the erstwhile <em>Leonora Northern Grazier and Miner<\/em> newspaper &#8211; 4 November, 1939. It read, \u201cMrs Roccheccioli, of Beria, charged Bert Read, of Beria, with assault, and her case was handled by Mr Ryan, solicitor, of Kalgoorlie. Bert Read also brought a counter charge against Mrs Roccheccioli.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter hearing evidence for both parties, the Magistrate dismissed both charges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It caused me to smile, and reminded me of Beria\u2019s dangerously explosive personality. In this instance, I suspect she gave good as she got. She never backed away from a stoush, regardless of the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarrely, at boarding school, the boarding houses and the classrooms looked out over the Swan River. From one side of the school rooms you looked across to Riverbank &#8211; a redbrick, boys\u2019 reformatory school which has since been closed, and abandoned. The irony of Riverbank\u2019s location was not lost on me.<\/p>\n<p>I paused for a moment of recall when the Queensland Premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, announced, in the wake of the North Lakes home invasion which, allegedly, resulted in the death of Emma Lovell, a range of new penalties for young people who commit serious crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that this has been a tragedy; a murder that has shocked Queensland, and has shocked everyone,\u201d Ms Palaszczuk said, offering her condolences to the Lovell family. In reference to the court system, the Premier added they \u201cneed to do their job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youth crime is a problem &#8211; it is a serious blight on society. The solution is problematic. Will tougher penalties make a discernible difference? Does the problem lie with the courts and perceived judicial leniency? Are we more concerned with the perpetrator than the victim? They are questions of a most complex nature. The answers are not simple, or immediate.<\/p>\n<p>Despite much lauded success in 1960s and 70s, Riverbank reformatory youth prison was abandoned. In the fullness of time, social mores and public expectations altered to such a degree, the institution was deemed draconian.<\/p>\n<p>While the Queensland changes are to be applauded, there remains one important question: Will stricter penalties serve as a deterrent to those whose lives, for whatever reason, are lived on the wrong side of the law?<\/p>\n<p>The problem is a collective one. Perhaps we need to look at our fractured society and see what all of us can do to mend the cracks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Roland can be heard with Brett Macdonald on Mondays at 10.45am on 3BA and contacted via <strong>roland@rolandroc.com<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a child &#8211; and to my consternation &#8211; I was constantly being threatened: \u201cIf you don\u2019t behave yourself, young man, I\u2019ll send you to a reformatory school!\u201d PARADOXICALLY, and apropos of nothing, my later mother, Beria, turned to me one day and said, \u201cIt\u2019s a funny thing, but I can\u2019t remember you ever being [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/from-the-desk-of-roland-rocchiccioli-22-january\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":87279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-87271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli \u2013 22 January - Golden Plains Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/goldenplains\/news\/from-the-desk-of-roland-rocchiccioli-22-january\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From the desk of Roland Rocchiccioli \u2013 22 January - Golden Plains Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As a child &#8211; 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