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June 24, 2026
Vote for the region’s worst road
PARTS of the Midland Highway have been included on the RACV's list of 52 high-risk regional road sections. Roads were identified through an analysis of...
June 21, 2026
From the office of ROLAND ROCCHICCIOLI
LOCAL council governance creep is a disturbing malaise covertly contaminating local government chambers across the Nation. It is motivated by undercover political party allegiance,...
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 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...
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 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...
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