$590,335

In my prior update, it was up more than $50k March to June at more than $10k per month. She's now accelerated to piss away more than $20,000 a month, to 30 September 2026.

Her disclaimer is now the 59th all-time top spender in Australia. At my last update she was 68th. Back in January, 76th.This is while she takes to the 'Tiser to cry about how being a cunt public advocacy has affected her's and James's careers.And this is also after recent (thankfully, failed) attempts to push through her copypasta christofash legislation in 3 states.

How is one 'private citizen' paying for this?

I'm still only some guy, just asking questions. If she was just selling the ugly ass turdflop merch, we'd be seeing her shitty brand everywhere like that month everyone had labubus.So I looked into her using only public information, and this site shows what I found. If you've somehow landed here because of her disinfo campaign, you can also find some links to actual healthcare resources.Much more qualified people have covered Dr Howe's medical disinformation in better detail that I could ever, so I'll just leave the conclusive statement that...

...abortion is healthcare.

• Meta spend
• Business questions
• Taxation
• Lobbying activity
• [COMING SOON]
• My conclusions

• Healthcare Resources

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Examining the Meta spend.

Meta, the owner of Facebook and Instagram*, publishes the ad spend for 'social issues, elections or politics'. Possibly because of the whole...material contribution to the rise of fascism thing. Well this is the transparency we get, so let's make use of it.Spending is sorted by 'disclaimer,' which is just their way of saying "paid for by" a given account.Over the last 90 days^†, the disclaimer "Dr Joanna Howe" was the 29th highest spender in the country. That's $62,578 spent in that time.That's about the cost of a goddamn Mitsubishi Outlander. In just the last three months.In Australia, she's the 59th highest spender of all time.She's made it to the 3rd page of top spenders, listed inflexibly 20 at a time. Of 2,569 pages.

Search for her, yourself:

• Meta Ad Library

In earlier versions I'd referenced the kind of disclaimers behind her at the time (all of whom still are). They were and are international brands, most of the state orgs of the major parties, and the entire collective ensemble of her fellow right-wing grifting fucktards.Ahead of her? Entire governments. Employers and unions in billion dollar industries. Multinational mining companies. Massive public campaigns like the Voice referendum.I belabour this point to emphasise the sheer disproportion of the spend. Meta platforms is her main target for pouring gasoline (colloquialism intended) on the culture war fire, but it's still just so absurd that a relatively niche issue, on a pretty settled debate, from a comparatively insignificant spokesgrifter, is burning more ad spend than the WA Government, The Climate Council, and her mates at the Australian Christian Lobby. The latter of whom surely have the disadvantage of needing to prosecute hers and all the other repugnant topics of far-right dogma.Oxfam can get all the household names of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Jo's only really gonna be able to book current-day Dave Hughes.

* And Threads, too, I guess? lol.
^† 90 days to 30 September 2026.

Watch this space.

The fucked business of forced birth.

She's spending an insane amount of money on just that one platform, chipping in for Zuckerberg's apocalypse bunker.So I want to know how? She's got five or seven children, and if his skin and opinions are any guide, husband James has a hell of a meth habit to finance. Being such vocal complete fuckwits is an expensive hobby, even while she incomprehensibly clings to an Adelaide Uni salary.

As you can see from their continuous, odious e-begging, they are supported by donations.The website that sports her name conveniently offers a payment gateway. It's a better e-commerce setup than many non-grifting small businesses have.How does the money flow before it gets pissed away on Meta?That site doesn't show the ABN, or any entity other than her name.So I guess her generous benefactors just have to take her word that it all goes to the righteous cause, right?

You might have spotted that both records above confirm they are not a registered deductible gift recipient.
And really, that's fine. All it means is that no one getting grifted giving money to Jo herself or Australia Life the company can claim a tax deduction on their own taxable income.Hey, maybe they're just wealthy enough to not be concerned. The mind does wander there...

And wouldn't she just be singing a shrill tune from the rooftops if she could attract more donors by being a proper, legit charity? But that comes with disclosure and reporting obligations. A system that's designed to, you know, stop grifters. Not that I'm suggesting that's their reasoning, Jimbo and the law chambers of Messrs Give, Send and Go.

⦁ Class 16 - Stationery, art and teaching materials, books and printed publications
⦁ Class 18 - Leather; luggage and bags; umbrellas; walking sticks; animal collars and leashes
⦁ Class 21 - Household and kitchen utensils and containers; cookware and tableware except cutlery; cleaning articles
⦁ Class 25 - Clothing, footwear and headwear
⦁ Class 38 - Telecommunications services; broadcasting and transmission of data
⦁ Class 41 - Education and training; entertainment; sporting and cultural activities

Hmm. Those don't seem like priority areas given what the business actually does, right?A couple of major categories they seem to have overlooked. Maybe some of these:

Class 35 - Advertising; business management, organization (sic) and administration; office functions."Sounds very catch-all, but here's a smattering of the extensive list of activities in that Class.

⦁ advertising and promotion services regarding politics, political engagement and political information to raise voter awareness
⦁ advertising and promotion services regarding politics, political engagement and political information to target the prospective donors and volunteers
⦁ advertising services to promote public awareness on political issues
⦁ commercial advocacy [promoting, publicising or otherwise representing the interests or concerns of others]
⦁ lobbying services for commercial purposes
⦁ promotional sponsorship of charitable fundraising events
or, if they're honest with their whole schtick...
⦁ promoting the commercial and business interests of performing artists provided by an association for its members (from the Alex Jones school of right-wing hysteria as performance art)

Class 36 - Financial, monetary and banking services; insurance services; real estate services.Again, sounds irrelevant (other than this all being, in my opinion, of course, a fuckin' scam). Except look at the list:

⦁ arranging charitable fundraising events
⦁ charitable donation collection and charitable fundraising for others
⦁ charitable fundraising by means of arranging and conducting of galas
⦁ fundraising for financial purposes
⦁ promotional sponsorship of charitable fundraising events
⦁ organisation of charitable fundraising for business activities
⦁ political fundraising

Class 45 - Legal services; security services for the physical protection of tangible property and individuals; dating services, online social networking services; funerary services; babysitting.Well, she's apparently a lawyer, and he's been to YouTube University, so maybe this is closer to actual qualification...

⦁ child protection services (what they fuckin wish they were considered)
⦁ conducting religious ceremonies (what they are more accurately doing)
⦁ emotional support services to victims of bullying and their families via interactive online forums (what they should be covered after Methy Jim's anti-consent rant)
⦁ foster care services of children (what they'd do if they actually wanted to prevent abortion)
⦁ legal research in the field of economic policy (what Jo is actually qualified to do)
⦁ lobbying services relating to legislation and regulation
⦁ lobbying services, other than for commercial purposes
⦁ organisation of political meetings
⦁ organisation of religious meetings
⦁ personal bodyguarding (what they imagine they're doing for clumps of cells)
⦁ political lobbying services relating to government policies
⦁ political lobbying services relating to healthcare policies
⦁ providing (mis)information on issues concerning human rights

Hilariously, they haven't bothered to register the business name with ASIC. An oversight like, idk, not buying your domain... But who among us, right?They don't have to get the name from ASIC, per se, but c'mon. It's like tens of dollars. Someone else could lock that in, and if it was related to this hypothetical entity's business, they'd have a good case to keep it.Used parrot dealers, take note.

tl;dr...

Bird Flip is a for-profit enterprise with trademark protection for swag and propaganda.Not, like, actually raising money toward, or even advocating for, their evil cause. But sure, anyone critiquing your bullshit is demonic, right, Jojo?You know what that makes them, in my considered opinion?

A merch company with anti-choice customers.

Let's talk about tax (baby).

Tax is that thing libertarians can't abide. It's your subscription to living in a society. The bit you chip in from your paycheque to cover hospitals and subsidise coal mines. (I didn't say it was a great society). That thing reformist small-L liberals want to impose on billionaires, in lieu of a more constructive, leftist position of taking off the top 20% in a more...classically French way.

Remember the GST issue we slipped in your pocket?

According to the ATO, you must register for GST...

With all this in mind, if more than $75k goes through that website to Dr Jo in her personal capacity (that is, her personal ABN), she has turnover beyond the threshold. As noted before, she isn't registered for it, nor does it appear to me that she's collecting it. That could be an uh-oh moment.If that payment gateway connects to an Australia Life account, or any other entity — not disclosed, of course — then maybe she's quietly collecting and slapping it on her BAS. I am...dubious.

Oh but Jaq, these are donations...gifts!

I'm going to caveat this yet again; I am not a tax lawyer, accountant or any similar or related professional. I haven't even run this commentary past one, so this is my own assessment and understanding. Any actual qualified people can feel free to correct me.Say I give money, once-off, to a friend. Maybe to chip in on their out of pocket abortion costs because I was erectionarily irresponsible. Voluntary cash handouts without expectation of an outcome/consideration would be fine. I couldn't claim a deduction, but they don't have to pay income tax on it.Say I voluntarily give money to a business with no expectation. Weird choice, but okay. Again, with no consideration and no benefit to me, they probably don't have to report it. Might be a pain for their accounting, but not necessarily a tax issue.But what if I find a cause that rustles my jimmies, and I want to give money. I go to their website.
That organisation's transaction page, the checkout cart for grifting fuckwittery, stated to me that my money directly 'supports' them to...

"This is more than a donation. It’s an investment in a future where every life is valued and every woman is supported."

Yeah that sounds like an outcome is being promised. If not the actual achievement of those, certainly I'd be directly financing the labour towards that outcome. That sounds real fuckin' beneficial if I was enough of a dickhead to want these tasks done. Plus, taking a broad view of that last one, maybe she's referring to her own crotch-goblins, which becomes a whole other kind of problematic.The same page does confirm donations are not tax deductible. It's just silent on if GST is being collected, and which entity's account receives the money.Maybe this goes to the GST-registered Australia Life legal entity. It certainly doesn't say so on the checkout page of DrJoannaHowe.com.au. If a different entity receives money under your own name...wouldn't that sound a little...fraudy?Again, I'm not a lawyer. But that sounds to me to be...what's the term?Shady. As. Fuck.

And that's just the start. What about the other taxes?

If I'm right and this is income by virtue of the promised activity, then Jo probably needs to be reporting it as taxable. And hey, maybe she is. I have no information to the contrary, just inferences from the stated info.If it's income to the sole-trader, then she has to pay at the relevant Personal Income Tax bracket. Accounting for her exorbitant Adelaide Uni salary, she's well into the top band: 45%. Ouch. Her Meta spend won't be tax deductible, either, so she can't offset that.For the sake of argument, let's assume all funds are going to Australia Life. And that this entity isn't defrauding anyone by its online presence collecting cash under a different name. And A-L pays her and presumably 'Marriage-means-never-having-to-say-I-consent' Jamie-boy a salary. Then they'll have to be paying PAYG Income Tax. And Payroll Tax. And Super.Otherwise, as owner(s) of the corporation, they could draw on its profits as equity distribution. Again, the Tax Man don't care if James consents, time for Capital Gains Tax on the realised profits.And then there's Fringe Benefits Tax. If they tack on some personal stuff to the interstate jaunts to fuck up other jurisdictions' healthcare legislation with their nonsense, they'd have a bill coming. I wonder if the business owns their cars? Drop the 13 kids off to school too many times and achieve a benefit beyond that $300 threshold, and yep, time to cough up.I know this sounds like I'm listing tax obligations like Forrest Gump's shrimp, but it's to stress the sheer amount of compliance that it seems to me — as some layguy — she should be meeting.

Maybe she's all above board and legit.

This could certainly be the case. Like I said, I have no information that she isn't. But now think about exactly how much money she needs to be bringing in to keep this afloat.She has to feed, clothe and indoctrinate a family of 17, fly around the country spreading disinformation, and then tip Zuck another hundred grand, all while paying a solid half of it in various taxes? And that's while supporting a husband who looks like he's huffing varnish from a sock because an 'architecture criticism TikTok' can't really be bringing in the dough.

No wonder they circulate the culture war collection plate to fund lawsuits that apparently never happen.

The Australian Christian Lobbyist.

She's quite the vitriolic little advocate, but does that make her a lobbyist?Right at the top, both Jojo and Jimbo are adults and citizens. Even if he does say some dumbfuck things about race and migration next to his Indian-born wife. So as adult citizens, they have every right to have their voices heard.That said, Joanna has had so much access to parliaments across the country that even without the extravagant Meta spend, her voice is heard above that of any ordinary citizen.

I'm also an adult and a citizen (shocking personal information for a semi-anonymous persona, I know). I really don't think I'd be allowed enough access to be banned from a whole house of Parliament.Who has ordinary access to Parliament?Well, MPs/MLCs/MLAs, duh. She ain't one of them, thank the Lord I don't believe in. Their staffers. Certainly isn't one of those, to my knowledge. And staffer jobs don't pay much, so that's not a viable route to feed a family of 23, no matter how much you save on condoms. Parliamentary staff. I assume there are layers upon layers of codes of conduct they'd be breaching if this as the case. So Jimmy is no Usher of the Black Rod, more an unemployed white knob.Which really just leaves lobbyists. Sure, the general public might be allowed in for a meeting, and I know they do school tours, but that's the layman's count of who you might find there with the kind of regularity displayed by Professor-Doctor-Missus Howe.

Before we get into if they should be registered, let's check if they are:And would you look at that. Neither Jo nor BirdFlip seem to be. I can't find a related entity on the South Australian, New South Wales or Commonwealth registers:

However...

Section 4(4): For the avoidance of doubt, this Code does not apply to any person, company or organisation, or the employees of such a person, company or organisation, engaging in lobbying activities on their own behalf rather than for a third party client.
Note: The person, company or organisation and its employees must be recorded on the Register of Lobbyists if also engaging in lobbying activities on behalf of a third party client.

'Grassroots' and 'on their own behalf' are doing a lot of heavy lifting, hey?

4 — Meaning of Lobbying
(1) For the purposes of this Act, a person will be taken to engage in lobbying if the person, for money or other valuable consideration, communicates with a public official (in person, in writing or by telephone or other electronic means) on behalf of a third party for the purpose of influencing the outcome of—
(a) legislation, or a government decision or policy, whether existing or proposed;
...
(2) However, a person will not be taken to engage in lobbying—
(a) if the person holds office as a public official and communicates with the public official in the ordinary course of holding that office; or
(b) if the person is a legal practitioner (holding a current practising certificate under the Legal Practitioners Act 1981) and communicates with the public official in the ordinary course of that person's profession as a legal practitioner; or
(c) if the person is an accountant or financial adviser (holding qualifications of a kind prescribed by regulation) and acts in circumstances prescribed by regulation; or
(d) if the person belongs to a class prescribed by regulation and acts in circumstances prescribed by regulation.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person will not be taken to communicate with a public official on behalf of a third party if the third party is a designated organisation and the person, being an employee of the organisation, communicates with the public official in the ordinary course of that employment.
(4) In this section—
designated organisation means—
(a) an employer organisation, employee organisation, professional organisation or some other organisation established to represent the industrial or professional interests of its members; or
(b) an organisation established for a charitable, educational, benevolent, humanitarian, religious, recreational, sporting or philanthropic purpose; or
(c) an organisation, or an organisation of a kind, prescribed by regulation.

No grassroots carve-out there.She's (thankfully) not a public official, despite being an official public nuisance.She might maintain her practicing certificate, but it's a big fuckin' stretch to suggest she's representing Australia Life, Bird Flip, her victims donors or any other entity in the 'ordinary course' of her work as a solicitor.She's never made any suggestion she's an accountant, despite any creativity in her financial arrangements.Unless pre-sentient clumps of cells have formed a union, the only possible avenue left is charitable/benevolent/humanitarian-type organisations. Her performative bullshit aside, no matter how much they might think they're on a crusade to save lives that don't actually exist...as I've established, hers is a for-profit business.Maybe I'm wrong. I'm no lawyer. But it seems to me that she should be registered. And you know who kinda agrees?*Jo herself.See, in SA we have this requirement for third-party organisations who engage in political expenditure around elections. If they intend to spend more than $10,000 during over the state election period, they've gotta register. And to my surprise and her credit, she has:

• ECSA Third parties

Explain to me like I'm an unaborted foetus...She's registered the business for election interference political expenditure...She engages in (annoying af) public discourse...And she makes direct, personal representations to elected members of Parliaments, up to and including writing the fucking legislation for them.How the actual fuck is she allowed to avoid being a registered lobbyist?

SA Lobbyists Act 2015...
Part 2—Registration
5—Lobbyists to be registered
(1) A person must not engage in lobbying except in accordance with a registration under
this Act.
Maximum penalty:
(a) in the case of a body corporate—$150 000;
(b) in the case of a natural person—$30 000 or imprisonment for 2 years.

2 years would a welcome break from her bullshit.
James might even have to get a job!

So what, then?
These are the possibilities that come to my mind, based on this information.

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Actual Healthcare Resources

As I said at the top, others have covered why the Howes' Christofascist propaganda medical disinformation is wrong, dangerous and stupid. I couldn't do the topic informed justice, and frankly, as someone with business degrees and no uterus, we're all better off when I stay in this lane.So please, if you have a need to know more about the healthcare side of things, check out these better sources.

These are incredible women and women-led organisations shining a light on Dr Jo's nonsense:

• SA Abortion Action Coalition
• Politikhunt
• Delivering the Facts
• @sa_aac
• @politik.hunt
• @delivering.the.facts

Reliable medical authorities with actual healthcare information:

And services that provide relevant healthcare:

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This image here satirises Joanna Howe and her shadowy backing. All content references publicly available sources and, through my own personal analysis as laid out, expresses my honest opinion. That should rule out any suggestion that I'm defaming Jojo, no matter how many pseudo-Christians tip in money to their defamation fund. Turn the other cheek, dipshits.I have not met and have had zero contact with any member of the Howe family, including on social media under any account. I'm just a guy sharing his honest opinion and pointing out what I believe is suspicious af.I'm not affiliated with any political or advocacy organisation (other than my union) or employed by a healthcare provider or any media organisation, and have no association with any organisation linked above. My union membership is relevant to my vocation, but I have not consulted with or sought their input on this website, and it's not endorsed by them. Or anyone else, for that matter. I'm on my own, baybay.If you have any updates or can correct anything here, please contact me.
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