McLindon gained some publicity in the media for his musical interests, especially his involvement in the alternative rock band KiLLTV.

In 2005, he was fined $250 on a public nuisance charge after jumping on the set of the Big Brother season 5 finale as Gretel Killeen prepared to announce the winner.

[citation needed] McLindon cites an early interest in politics at the age of 15 from work experience at Queensland Parliament House in 1995.

[9] In 1998 McLindon was preselected by the Liberal Party to run for the state seat of Waterford as Australia's youngest politically endorsed candidate at the age of 17 years, where he claims to have doorknocked 17,500 homes.

McLindon has advocated the removal of poker machines from towns and cities around Queensland to be moved into a new "AusVegas" in the Cairns region.

[21] On 4 July 2022, he announced his candidacy on behalf of the right-wing to far-right Freedom Party for the seat of Mulgrave in Victoria to contest against Daniel Andrews in the state elections.

[22][23] Before the 2022 Victorian state election, McLindon formed an 'ethical bloc' in order to bring together the minor right-wing parties into preference negotiations.

[26] McLindon contested the 2025 Werribee state by-election[27] polling tenth of 12 candidates with approximately 0.6 percent of the primary vote.