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October 2000
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293-00 Dairy Farmers
Dairy Farmers - Oak - animated cartoon insects - cockroach
Dismissed 17/10/2000
August 2008
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303-08 Advanced Medical Institute
AMI - couple in rocket - rocket can't 'get up'
Dismissed 13/08/2008
November 2005
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316-05 Golden Circle Ltd
Golden Circle - Original Juice - in Florida it's illegal to be intimate with a porcupine. Prostitute asks porcupine "how's business?"
Dismissed 08/11/2005
May 2005
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105-05 Frucor Beverages (Australia) Pty Ltd
Frucor - V - cockroach does weightlifting after drinking V
Dismissed 10/05/2005
May 2003
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108-03 Land Rover Australia
Land Rover - Discovery - 'Crocodile' - man drives Land Rover on wrong side of road.
Dismissed 13/05/2003
August 1998
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116-98 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
Toyota - Landcruiser - 'A remarkable migration'.
Dismissed 11/08/1998
February 2001
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12-01 Carter Holt Harvey Tissue Aust Pty Ltd
Carter Holt Harvey - Wet Handee Clean-Ups
Dismissed 13/02/2001
363-00 John Danks & Son Pty Ltd
John Danks & Son's Home Hardware - helium gas
Dismissed 13/02/2001
October 2003
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335-03 Nissan Motor Co (Aust) Pty Ltd
Nissan - Pulsar-TV- 'The pricing department hasn't done a bloody thing'
Dismissed 14/10/2003
July 2011
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0233-11 Little River Paint Ball
Image of a person wearing protective clothing with red paint splattered on the face mask. The accompanying text reads, "Are they my paint balls on your face. World series paintball. Little River - Oakleigh."
Dismissed Billboard 13/07/2011
June 2002
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134-02 Prestige Auto Traders Balmain
Prestige Auto Traders - baby boy apparently playing with genitalia but with logo obscuring view - 'Looking for a new toy?'
Dismissed Outdoor 11/06/2002
May 1999
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142-99 Australian Jockey Club
Australian Jockey Club (Warwick Farm Racecourse) "Last Post"
Dismissed Radio 11/05/1999
145-99 Honda Australia Pty Ltd
Honda - Accord
Dismissed 11/05/1999
June 1999
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148-99 Kawasaki Motors Pty Ltd
Kawasaki Motors- "Caravan in desert"
Dismissed 08/06/1999
157-99 Nestle Australia Ltd
Nestle - Kit Kat - Angel and devil each eat Kit Kat.
Dismissed 08/06/1999
June 2003
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151-03 Kellogg (Aust) Pty Ltd
Kellogg - Coco Pops - 'Coco' fighting for Coco Pops World Cup - 'That cracks me up'.
Dismissed 10/06/2003
163-03 Freedom Furniture Ltd
Freedom Furniture - Song - 'We are nothing but mammals'.
Dismissed 10/06/2003
December 1999
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391-99 Australian Dairy Corporation
Australian Dairy Corporation - butter - father burns tree at barbeque
Dismissed 07/12/1999
June 2007
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169-07 McDonald's Aust Ltd
McDonald's - Happy Meals - cat/aliens - girl rescues cat from tree and aliens take her to McD, picking up father on the way
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued 12/06/2007
November 2006
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406-06 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
Reckitt Benckiser - Pine-O-Cleen - more germs on chopping board than toilet seat, germs on baby's highchair, coloured child in dog's basket, white child in clean environment
Dismissed 14/11/2006
December 2003
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411-03 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Ford - Falcon RTV Ute - ute and motorcycle racing.
Dismissed 09/12/2003
February 2010
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43-10 PZ Cussons Australia
PZ Cussons - Duo Ultra (43/10)TV. Child's drawing on tablecloth implies adultery
Dismissed 10/02/2010
January 2008
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451-07 Global One Mobile Entertainment
Global One - Mobile Active - Home Babe Auditions SMS PEEP to 1994 9999 - scantily clad women lying on top of each other on a bed, and a closeup of a small bikini with the wearer's fingers moving around in a sexual way
Dismissed 16/01/2008
October 2009
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459-09 Advanced Medical Institute
AMI - (459/09) -become longer stronger lovers -radio nova)
Dismissed Radio 14/10/2009
December 2008
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478-08 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
Toyota - Rav 4 - man looks into vacuum and his eye is sucked out of socket
Dismissed 10/12/2008
October 2009
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487-09 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
Toyota - (487/09) - TV - middle agedman wearing red jumper around his shoulders/doesn't trim chest hair - Soft, made to Last
Dismissed 28/10/2009
April 2004
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53-04 Australian Jockey Club
Australian Jockey Club - Randwick Easter carnival - "Princesses come alive" - woman wearing panties igetting ready for race carnival in langourious sensual manner
Dismissed 13/04/2004
March 2003
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54-03 Subaru (Aust) Pty Ltd
Subaru - All-wheel drive - 'Symmetry creates control'.
Dismissed 11/03/2003
23-03 Hewlett-Packard Australia Pty Ltd
Hewlett-Packard - Police use violence to make arrest.
Dismissed 11/03/2003
July 2000
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191-00 Volvo Car Aust Pty Ltd
Volvo - V70 - boy and girl in rear seat with skateboard
Dismissed Print 11/07/2000
January 2010
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563-09 Advanced Medical Institute
AMI - Radio 563/09. Can we practice?
Dismissed Radio 20/01/2010
February 2009
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58-09 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
Mitsubishi - TV -Pajero avoids traffic by leaving the road and driving 'off-road'and splashes water and mud onto other drivers.
Dismissed 11/02/2009
February 2007
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20-07 Advanced Medical Institute
AMI - Want longer lasting sex? 20/07
Dismissed Outdoor 13/02/2007
April 2003
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61-03 Unilever Australasia
Unilever - Flora ProActiv margarine - man falls from bridge-bungee jump.
Dismissed 08/04/2003
June 2008
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205-08 Motorola Australia
Motorola - Razr mobile phone - phone portrayed as cut-throat razor being used by a man and woman at a train station slashing each others' clothing
Dismissed 18/06/2008
March 2002
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67-02 Energy Australia
Energy Australia - man stands on phone book to make himself taller, then tries milk crate, then ladder - answers door to see short man from EA
Dismissed 12/03/2002
October 2010
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0410-10 Newcastle United Jets FC
The advertisement, Sheets, depicts two young men in a suburban backyard taking white sheets off a clothesline as a dog barks at them. They climb over a fence and meet a third young man. A fourth also arrives on the scene with a floral patterned sheet, which causes the others to laugh and give him funny looks. The advertisement then cuts to crowd footage from a Newcastle Jets Hyundai A-League match showing fans waving large banners and flags, and a male voice over encourages support for the Jets at their forthcoming match.
Dismissed 13/10/2010
March 1998
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8-98 Bayer Australia Ltd
Bayer - Hallelujah chorus
Dismissed 10/03/1998
May 2001
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83-01 Streets Ice Cream
Unilever - Streets - Magnum - condom
Dismissed 08/05/2001
August 2007
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232-07 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Ford - Fiesta XR4 - internet - man's faces changes expression and sunglasses added and removed - car goes fast around corner. Text changes from "Live fast" to "Live hard"
Dismissed Internet 14/08/2007
235-07 Suzuki Australia Pty Limited
Suzuki - Swift - man hears radio advice of bad weather conditions for driving,but "not for some" - we see footage of professional rally driving as the driver goes out to his car
Dismissed 14/08/2007
July 1999
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240-99 Holden Ltd
Holden - Commodore Utility - 'drive hard, drive the adrenalin' - man working on heavy machinery "Does he ever stop?" then see him doing extreme sports
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued 13/07/1999
November 2012
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0449-12 BCF
Two men on a fishing boat.
Dismissed 28/11/2012
October 2001
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250-01 Lanes Biscuits Pty Ltd
Lanes Biscuits - Oreo - boy and dog
Dismissed 09/10/2001
August 2003
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253-03 Ansell Healthcare
Ansell - Rubber Gloves - woman greets man at door after taking off gloves.
Dismissed 12/08/2003
October 2005
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265-05 Allpest WA
Allpest - radio - pest extermination - woman asks "can I exterminate my husband as well as all the pests?"
Dismissed Radio 11/10/2005
January 2012
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0490-11 Beach Burrito Company
Day of the dead graphics featuring a skeleton draped in a blue hooded cloak with its hands clasped as if in prayer and four smaller skeletons at its feet playing musical instruments. There are roses in the background and two bird like skulls. www.beachburritocompany.com.
Dismissed Print 18/01/2012
October 2004
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274-04 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
Toyota - Camry Sportivo V6 - car swerves to avoid falling traffic cones
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued 12/10/2004
February 2004
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28-04 H J Heinz Co Australia Ltd
H J Heinz - Greenseas Tuna telling dolphin "so dolphin friendly I'll lend you my wife"
Dismissed 17/02/2004
December 2002
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294-02 Goodman Fielder Limited
Goodman Fielder - Uncle Toby's - Fruit Twists - Grant Hackett eats Twist then corkscrews his body to the shap of the bar, before diving into the pool and swimming
Dismissed 10/12/2002

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