Monthly Archives: October 2007

Welcome to the all NEW Tim Malone.id.au!

Originally posted Saturday 13th October at 9:12pm – I am bumping this post back up because many may not have seen it over the weekend, as it took awhile for Internet at large to see the new website (in technical terms: I was switching servers at the same time and forgot to lower the TTL [...]

Howard calls 24th November election

John Howard has made the announcement this morning for an election to be held on the 24th November – allowing himself a 6 week campaign period to try to claw his way back in the polls. Despite the bad outlook at the moment, he said a couple of hours ago in a press conference from [...]

Hillsong, don’t sue Channel 7, please

What’s one indication that a church has become more of a worldly business than a church? When it starts getting involved in litigation. After Today Tonight showed three “exclusive” stories last week claiming that 5 of 9 Australian Idol finalists were members of Hillsong Church and that Hillsong “encouraged” it’s members to vote for these [...]

The vote-a-matic and Christian involvement in politics

Two quickies – unrelated except for the fact that they’re both related to politics (and no, none of my opinions are in here, see the last post for the reason ). If you don’t know who you’re voting for yet, I suggest checking out NEWS.com.au’s Vote-a-matic – tagged ‘yes, your computer can tell you how [...]

Applying for work with the AEC

I’m applying for work today with the Australian Electoral Commission. This upcoming election being the first time I’m eligible to vote, I’ve started to become very interested in politics and Australia’s electoral system, so I thought it would be a great idea to see what sort of temporary election work I could find so I [...]