Simon O'Neill
@sjponeill.bsky.social
Green-leaning and living, Rottie lover, rural dwelling Aotearoan..
...until I left the Air Force for DOC after 28 years in the military, most if not all of my career decisions had been shaped by the Airfix and Revell catalogues from the 1970s...
...until I left the Air Force for DOC after 28 years in the military, most if not all of my career decisions had been shaped by the Airfix and Revell catalogues from the 1970s...
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Reposted by Simon O'Neill
This Friday over 17,000 PSA health members are striking across the motu for safe staffing, fair pay, and conditions to give quality care patients deserve. 📍Find your nearest 28 November picket or rally at psa.org.nz/health
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
This Friday over 17,000 PSA health members are striking across the motu for safe staffing, fair pay, and conditions to give quality care patients deserve. 📍Find your nearest 28 November picket or rally at psa.org.nz/health
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
#NZPol #StandTogetherForHealth
Reposted by Simon O'Neill
The brain is a powerful organ.
It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First.
#nzpol
It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First.
#nzpol
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The brain is a powerful organ.
It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First.
#nzpol
It starts working in the mother's womb, and doesn't stop working until you vote for National, ACT, or NZ First.
#nzpol
Seeing this comment, Luxon rethinks - and awards tug contract to Hate Hone St John...
NZ government peers over cliff, having pointlessly delayed new fence at top, now opts to cancel ambulance at bottom…
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cost...
www.beehive.govt.nz/release/cost...
www.beehive.govt.nz
November 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Seeing this comment, Luxon rethinks - and awards tug contract to Hate Hone St John...
Masterful!!!! @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social getting Winston to put up or shut up...
#nzpol
Despite the tone of this stupid headline, this move by Duncan Webb is a brilliant political manoeuvre
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
Despite the tone of this stupid headline, this move by Duncan Webb is a brilliant political manoeuvre
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
'Winston are you in?' Labour extends olive branch to NZ First, offering to repeal Regulatory Standards Act this term
Labour has opened the door to repealing the Regulatory Standards Act this term.
www.nzherald.co.nz
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Masterful!!!! @duncanwebbmp.bsky.social getting Winston to put up or shut up...
It's great to see Craig Renney getting further into the game but I'm wondering just WTF Labour is trying to achieve running such a capable candidate against an equally strong ally like JAG...
Like, are they seriously trying to split the vote...?
Like, are they seriously trying to split the vote...?
I’m delighted to announce I'm standing as the Labour candidate in Wellington Bays/Rongotai in 2026. I'm thrilled to fight for better jobs, housing, and health services in our community. Look in the bio to donate, volunteer, and help us deliver a better government next year.
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
It's great to see Craig Renney getting further into the game but I'm wondering just WTF Labour is trying to achieve running such a capable candidate against an equally strong ally like JAG...
Like, are they seriously trying to split the vote...?
Like, are they seriously trying to split the vote...?
I wanted to join the Air Force but when the recruiter said my vision wasn't good enough to fly, the Army recruiter elbowed him out of the way and that was me me sorted for the next couple of decades....
November 23, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I wanted to join the Air Force but when the recruiter said my vision wasn't good enough to fly, the Army recruiter elbowed him out of the way and that was me me sorted for the next couple of decades....
Reposted by Simon O'Neill
Doctors and parents should make decisions about what is best for their kids health - not politicians. The Government has said doctors cannot give new prescriptions of puberty blockers to children who are suffering from gender dysphoria. That is putting kids at risk.
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Doctors and parents should make decisions about what is best for their kids health - not politicians. The Government has said doctors cannot give new prescriptions of puberty blockers to children who are suffering from gender dysphoria. That is putting kids at risk.
Community trapping programmes work...
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Community trapping programmes work...
Luxon after 3 years in govt
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Luxon after 3 years in govt
Committing to fully fund emergency services to the same level as Defence would be a massively popular move.
They are all slowly imploding under the weight of failing recruiting and steadily increasing job rates....
They are all slowly imploding under the weight of failing recruiting and steadily increasing job rates....
So for Labour they need to work on (3) the Joes which the CGT actually did by kicking it off, and remind business who their actual allies are
Dont bother with the (1)s unless policies are there to punish them
That way you basically cut the legs out from National for an extremely long time
/end
Dont bother with the (1)s unless policies are there to punish them
That way you basically cut the legs out from National for an extremely long time
/end
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Committing to fully fund emergency services to the same level as Defence would be a massively popular move.
They are all slowly imploding under the weight of failing recruiting and steadily increasing job rates....
They are all slowly imploding under the weight of failing recruiting and steadily increasing job rates....
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Stanford education experiment trailing smoke....
Amazing!
More than 1000 schools have now said they will continue giving effect to Te Tiriti, despite the government removing Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act.
#ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol
More than 1000 schools have now said they will continue giving effect to Te Tiriti, despite the government removing Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act.
#ToitūTeTiriti #nzpol
'Expression of kotahitanga': More than 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi
It comes after the government removed Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/579646/expression-of-kotahitanga-more-than-1000-schools-reaffirm-commitment-to-te-tiriti-o-waitangi
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Stanford education experiment trailing smoke....
Reposted by Simon O'Neill
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
The same is true for everyone who swear their oath.
Hope that clears things up.
Oh, outstandinging....!
B is for BUSTED!
B is for BUSTED!
"But The Post can reveal that nearly half of those emails — 17 of the 36 — were sent not to his Beehive office but to Mitchell’s Whangaparāoa electorate office throughout January and February 2024."
(2/3)
(2/3)
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Oh, outstandinging....!
B is for BUSTED!
B is for BUSTED!
Reposted by Simon O'Neill
When you finish wrapping you earn the right to wield Papierdril, the tube sword! Forged in a far away factory by the paper masters and crafted to make the perfect bonk sound!
December 25, 2024 at 3:58 AM
When you finish wrapping you earn the right to wield Papierdril, the tube sword! Forged in a far away factory by the paper masters and crafted to make the perfect bonk sound!
First thing that should happen is NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi - Manawatū-Whanganui & Taranaki takes responsibility for all the gorse, blackberry, broom and other invasive weeds growing along its highways bordering Tongariro National Park.
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa...
From ashes to renewal: How Tongariro’s blackened slopes could heal themselves
A unique ecological legacy could rise from the ashes of the Tongariro National Park wildfire if long-term recovery work succeeds.
www.newstalkzb.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
First thing that should happen is NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi - Manawatū-Whanganui & Taranaki takes responsibility for all the gorse, blackberry, broom and other invasive weeds growing along its highways bordering Tongariro National Park.
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa...
www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/nationa...
Welcome to the world's first naked Opposition....
Brownlee has banned "clothing conveying a political message" from the House.
He's banned trans pins, pies, and shirts.
He's banned trans pins, pies, and shirts.
November 20, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Welcome to the world's first naked Opposition....
What if the community says "GF, we don't want that debt"...?
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
What if the community says "GF, we don't want that debt"...?
Post-fire images along the "ditch track" between Whakapapa Village and the main Tongariro Alpine Crossing trail at Mangatepopo.
The challenge is to prevent upwind weeds dispensing seeds (dandelion, gorse, broom, blackberry) into the burn area...
#CruisingSh4 #RuapehuNZ #Tongariro
[DOC images]
The challenge is to prevent upwind weeds dispensing seeds (dandelion, gorse, broom, blackberry) into the burn area...
#CruisingSh4 #RuapehuNZ #Tongariro
[DOC images]
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Post-fire images along the "ditch track" between Whakapapa Village and the main Tongariro Alpine Crossing trail at Mangatepopo.
The challenge is to prevent upwind weeds dispensing seeds (dandelion, gorse, broom, blackberry) into the burn area...
#CruisingSh4 #RuapehuNZ #Tongariro
[DOC images]
The challenge is to prevent upwind weeds dispensing seeds (dandelion, gorse, broom, blackberry) into the burn area...
#CruisingSh4 #RuapehuNZ #Tongariro
[DOC images]
Ray Chung (with equal conviction) "I didn't realise my fly was open..."
Mayor Andrew Little says he and chief executive Matt Prosser have had assurances from Chung the situation was unintentional and that Chung has apologised.
Private council briefing blogged online after ‘hot mic’ moment
Wellington City councillor Ray Chung left an open phone line to a controversial social media figure for 40 minutes during a closed training session, the mayor has confirmed – the contents of which wer...
www.thepost.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Ray Chung (with equal conviction) "I didn't realise my fly was open..."