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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

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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...

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...