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October 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0459-18 Stuart Alexander & Co Pty Ltd
It is a billboard on a bus. The largest image in the ad is a fruit kebab showing strawberry, banana, passionfruit, mango, peach.Text above says " a bit fruit-y a bit fusion-y". Below the kebab is a much smaller image of the mentos product and the words "...who says no to Mentos"
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries Transport 24/10/2018
0468-18 Sportsbet
Sportsbet advertising which features the line 'BS responsibly'.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0462-18 Jackson Motor Company
Separate scences showing a young man and a man driving different vehicles by themselves at different locations (city, country).
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0446-18 Stan
Advertising upcoming Stan tv show "Escape at Dannemora", adult rating of sexual nature
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0473-18 Mad Harry’s
Animated tv ad for a retail chain - Mad Harry’s
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0476-18 Brand Developers
The ad was for a make up product that was used to cover up "blemishes" and had a teenage girl applying it and complaining about her looks.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Pay 24/10/2018
0455-18 Honey Birdette
A woman in leather lingerie that only just covers the breasts and is in dominatrix style
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 24/10/2018
0470-18 Repco Ltd
Advert shows someone sniffing oil fumes to guess the oil, penrite.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0449-18 Honey Birdette
This advertisement features two women in black lingerie, one of them is straddling the other. The caption states 'The most indecent affair yet...SIENNA'.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 24/10/2018
0458-18 Universal Pictures
Advertisement for an upcoming horror movie Halloween.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0452-18 Honey Birdette
A woman wearing a black lace bra with the caption 'The most indecent affair yet SIENNA'.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 24/10/2018
0475-18 Universal Pictures
Preview for horror movie Halloween.
Dismissed Entertainment Internet 24/10/2018
0467-18 National Pharmacies
Poster advertisement of a boy scratching his bottom and the text "If you were wondering how to deal with intestinal worms in small children, National Pharmicies has the solution."
Dismissed Health Products Poster 24/10/2018
0457-18 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
Emphasises power and 4wd ability of VW Amarock - including a scene suggesting a car narrowly overtakes two trucks.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0454-18 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Ford vehicle that shows a man walking out in front of a car that has automatic breaking.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0472-18 Lion
The ad is set at an outdoor bar where a black man is sitting talking to a white woman. The barman, using oversized binoculars, spots a man bringing a buck of dark-bottled stout beers toward a group of drinkers. With an expression of disdain he opens a Heineken, and in an effort to intercept what he sees as inferior dark ales, he sends the Heineken toward the drinkers via skateboard. As the beer travels the ad cuts to a white male looking down at a black male. The Heineken arrives and the stout is replaced.
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0448-18 Honey Birdette
Advertisement features a woman wearing black lingerie sitting behind the wheel of a convertible. The caption says "The Arrival...MARIA'.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 24/10/2018
0451-18 Honey Birdette
The advertisement features a woman in a tuxedo facing a woman in red lingerie. The caption says 'surrender to her command CANDICE'.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 24/10/2018
0469-18 Unilever Australasia
The advertisement depicted one elderly man handing another elderly man a large mug of tea bearing the slogan OLD FART.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
October 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0435-18 Sony Pictures Releasing Pty Ltd
Dark monochrome image of a half-man, half sharp-toothed menacing monster
Dismissed Entertainment Transport 10/10/2018
0430-18 Wicked Campers
Wicked Van with slogan on the back - "Every time you masturbate God Kills a kitten". Rego is 1CWZ 736 (WA)
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 10/10/2018
0439-18 Universal Music Aust Ltd
Billboard advertisement for Eminem's Kamikaze album. Black background. Aeroplane going to the left.
Dismissed Entertainment Billboard 10/10/2018
0434-18 Sony Pictures Releasing Pty Ltd
There are graphic scary scenes thrust into our faces- of a monster with long sharp teeth about to devour a person and there is another scene where a person is in agony writhing on the ground. 
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0443-18 ING Direct
Isla Fisher without warning burst the balloons of all non ING customers, which happen to be female and she also proceeds to burst the balloon held by a young female without asking her if she is a customer, she assumes she is. All the people targeted in the add are female. All the men in the ad are ING customers (funny that) and she gives them a balloon (without bursting it).
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0433-18 Honey Birdette
The shop window display of Honey Birdette features two women in black lingerie standing on a balcony with the caption 'an affair like no other - MRS ROBINSON'.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 10/10/2018
0438-18 Sportsbet
Young man sitting on a car bonnet. Overvoice talking about how his mum paid for the car. Similar theme in other ads targetting young people in their late teens.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0442-18 Domino's Pizza Australia Pty Ltd
It’s an ad for Dominos big New York style pizza that has swearing beeped out at the end. 
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0437-18 Sony Computer Entertainment Aust Pty Ltd
The advert was a PlayStation 4 game, “Fortnite” being aired on a children's television channel, Cartoon Network.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Pay 10/10/2018
0441-18 Geocon
The billboards for the Tryst apartments  contain a close up of one or two women with the suggestion of intimacy. 
Dismissed Real Estate Billboard 10/10/2018
0445-18 SAHMRI
During this advertisement the narrator talks about syphilis and sex. At one point they say “we all like to have sex”.There was also a cartoon of two people being intimate in bed.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0432-18 Sportsbet
Interruption of a process - in particular, turning a clay pot, resulting in the destruction of the item being worked on, implying that none of these pastimes are as satisfying or valuable as a sportsbet multi. 
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0440-18 Inspirations Paint
Woman was cleaning up after husband and he texted her saying he was at the pub and she sent back a smiley face.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0431-18 Sportsbet
Interruption of a process - in particular, trimming bonsai, resulting in the destruction of the item being worked on, implying that none of these pastimes are as satisfying or valuable as a sportsbet multi. 
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0444-18 Wicked Campers
Wicked Camper Van with SA registered plates 'S011 BMU'. The back of the van features the words 'Life is like a bowl of soup, you only get blown when you're hot...' and the side of the van features a picture of an alien pointing a finger upwards and the words 'GET iT UP YA'.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 10/10/2018
September 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0419-18 First State Super
Image of a car accident with a rolled vehicle and a trapped person with their arm dangling out. 
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0409-18 Lion
The Instagram post dated June 28th 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BkjtA0UHMao/?taken-by=brisbanegirlsabroad) depicts two young women holding bottles of XXXX Summer Bright Lager. The post is from Brisbane Girls Abroad’s Instagram page that has 7,399 followers (https://www.instagram.com/brisbanegirlsabroad/) and is captioned: “When you lug a picnic up the mountain only for it to pour rain as soon as you sit down ????????We’ve always wanted to picnic at the top of Ngungun...didn’t quite turn out how we expected ???????
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0402-18 Chemist Warehouse
A "Mother" orchestrates a symphony consisting of her "Family" coughing and treats them with the various Duro-Tuss formulations.
Dismissed Health Products TV - On Demand 26/09/2018
0414-18 Kerr's Hire
The talk is of questions in a training seminar and one guy keeps saying a brand of equipment. He ends the ad saying he feels the woman conducting the quiz is a bit of a "wacker" herself.
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery Radio 26/09/2018
0422-18 Tribe Breweries
The Instagram post dated July 3rd 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BkvyvkvAD3p/?taken-by=wilde_beer) depicts two social media influencers with one drinking a bottle of Wilde Beer.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0426-18 Invocare
There is a moderately sized billboard with a picture of a lady dressed in white, holding a flower and smelling it. The billboard says "white lady funerals", then says "a woman's understanding."
Dismissed Professional Services Billboard 26/09/2018
0418-18 Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation
This ad is supposed to make people be aware are of gambling addiction. It’s says “everybody’s doing it” which conveys a sexual innuendo. We then see a father sitting with his teenage son as of they’re having “the talk” the father also flicks off a sock from his bed which further alludes sexual connotations.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0405-18 Webjet
This ad has a male and female in it. The ad promotes the stereotype that men are stupid.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0413-18 Kerr's Hire
The ad they have talks about a memorable day in 1982 with a husband going on about how wonderful that day was and he talks at the end that this is the year that Kerrs Hire started operating and his wife thought he was referring to the year they were married
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery Radio 26/09/2018
0408-18 DIY Resolutions Pty Ltd
Ad has a child riding a scooter through the kitchen and knocking a dish out of the mothers hands. 
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0417-18 Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors Pty Ltd
The ad was for the latest Predator movie and included guns, violence, and images of the Predator. 
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Pay 26/09/2018
0421-18 Lisa McGuigan Wines
Poster on the side of a bus "Once you've tried Blac you'll never go back" Lisa Mcguigan.
Dismissed Alcohol Transport 26/09/2018
0412-18 White Fox Boutique
Pay TV advertisement for White Fox Boutique.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Pay 26/09/2018
0401-18 AAMI
Commercial for car insurance. A family is using 3D glasses when to watch a movie when a car crashes through the wall. The father says "it's like he's in the room with us."
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0404-18 Hanes Brands Inc
Television advertisement featuring women playing sports with various balls that are shaped like women's breasts.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0425-18 Wicked Campers
Wicked Campervan WA rego 1DEA.616 with text displayed on the boot: "I'm here for the bukakke".
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 26/09/2018

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