2025 - Opinions

There are opinion pieces in the archives.

Comments about matters of local interest that express personal opinions rather than news reporting.

A bit of updating
October 30, 2025 in Community and Opinion

Some information has become available about matters addressed in two articles here in April, 2025. You can read the updated articles at the links below.

Down the drain it goes
August 14, 2025 in Opinion

You might be surprised at how much money disappears into poker machines in Oberon over a year. It's even worth comparing it to how much the Council spends filling potholes.
See some numbers here

Legal Costs, Confusion, and a DA That Was Approved Anyway
July 3, 2025 in Opinion

Councillor Helen Hayden had some words to say about a waste of time and money at Oberon Council.
See what she had to say here

Scammers! The lowest form of life
May 22, 2025 in Community and Opinion

If you are a member of any of Oberon's community Facebook groups you will have seen people offering data entry jobs with high pay and flexible working hours. These jobs do not exist. The people posting the pretend advertisements have invariably joined the group within the previous few days and it is reasonable to assume that they are using false names, with new names being invented as the originals get blocked by admins. As they didn't like people commenting about their lies, their posts now have comments disabled.

The only purpose of these advertisements is to gather information to be used for other purposes. And do they care if you don't like what they do? See here for some interactions with the vermin. Note that one of them didn't care about being insulted and both had left Facebook after a couple of days.

What is Oberon Men's Shed Inc all about?
May 1, 2025 in Community and Opinion

Dave McMurray tells us a little bit about the history of the Oberon Men's Shed and why it is an important part of and asset for the Oberon community.
See Dave's story here

Editorial - The use of AI
April 17, 2025 in Opinion
Updated November 20, 2025

There's lots being said about artificial intelligence and its effect on journalism and the arts.
You can see the Oberon Matters policies here

Editorial - Council vacancies
April 3, 2025 in Opinion and Community
Updated October 30 2025

For the second time since the September, 2024, council elections, Oberon Council has lost one of the nine Councillors. This means another round of examining the September votes to find a replacement, with the additional cost and disruption to Council business that this entails. Here's hoping we've seen the last of this sort of thing.
See the opinion piece here