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March 2016
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0114-16 WorkSafe Victoria
The importance of having Worksafe procedures in place in the workplace to prevent injury.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 23/03/2016
March 2017
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0118-17 Kellogg (Aust) Pty Ltd
In a poor attempt at humour to identify and outline health contents of the cereal. The advert utilise an offensive camp voice over for the "goldfish" character.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/03/2017
0084-17 Weight Watchers
A collage of different people and scenarios. In one scene a woman chops some food and flicks it into a bowl with a large knife. The bowl is being held by a child.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 08/03/2017
0088-17 Telstra Corporation Ltd
The other ad says: "This is Robbo. He's the guy who's going to help you move house this weekend." The picture shows a stupid, clumsy man who drops the sausage out of his roll, spills drink on his t-shirt etc.
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 08/03/2017
0092-17 Crimsafe
The advertisement in question depicted an elderly woman considering the question posed via voiceover as to whether her security screens were genuine Crimsafe screens, inferring she would not be safe in her home unless they were.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 08/03/2017
October 2018
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0456-18 Nestle Australia Ltd
Ad promoting Optifast.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0453-18 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Depicts high speed driving on country dirt roads/tracks as well as “tearing up” ground spinning wheels etc
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
April 2017
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0140-17 Tabcorp Holdings Limited
Various scenes depicting people excessively excited after receiving notification of big wins via their mobile, after initialling placing their bets via their mobile. One scene depicted a guy in a dentist chair (mouth wide open with a clamp) going berserk with excitement.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 12/04/2017
July 2019
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0210-19 Roadshow Films
Television advertisement for movie "Annabelle Comes Home" 
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
April 2015
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0147-15 Maatouks Law Group
Law firm advertising its services refers to a woman as a "lying, cheating, psycho."
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 29/04/2015
November 2018
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0483-18 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
The advertisement features both men and women sitting on the toilet in an advertisement for V.I.Poo
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 14/11/2018
0492-18 Hanes Brands Inc
Television advertisement featuring Serena Williams and the song 'I touch myself' for breast cancer awareness.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 14/11/2018
October 2019
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0325-19 Seafolly
This television advertisement depicts various women in swimwear, mowing the lawn, walking dogs, playing in the pool.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 09/10/2019
November 2014
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0488-14 Best & Less
A Man (Dad) comes through the door at home and there is a child hanging from a coat hook.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
November 2019
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0362-19 Carlton United Brewery
This television advertisement features the claim that in 2020 VB will be brewed with 100% solar.
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
December 2014
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0507-14 Fantasy Lingerie
Girls wearing sexy/fantasy lingerie posing on all fours and with their legs open.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
December 2017
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0518-17 Hungry Jacks
A man is consuming a healthy beverage ie: wheatgrass juice at a health food bar and the plastic burger phone rings he answers it and a voice is telling him to ditch the juice and go to Hungry Jacks to buy an iced soft drink. He throws the wheatgrass juice over another patron and leaves for Hungry Jacks.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 06/12/2017
August 2020
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0230-20 McDonald’s Australia Limited
This television advertisement features a man driving through a McDonald's drive through at night with a small baby asleep in the back seat. It includes a promotion for $2 coffee.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 12/08/2020
May 2015
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0188-15 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
There is a shot of a very young girl entering a river in a bikini, the shot is obviously focusing on her bottom, she is probably only 12.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 27/05/2015
0203-15 Mars Petcare Australia
Advert starts with a group of boys fighting in the street, pushing each other onto the road, then a dog comes on the road and they go to save it!
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 27/05/2015
September 2020
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0268-20 eBay Australia & New Zealand
There are three versions of this television advertisement which feature employees of eBay discussing customer orders and the processing of customer orders.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 23/09/2020
January 2017
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0572-16 Queensland Health
2 young boys & 2 young girls discussing sexual transmited diseases.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 18/01/2017
December 2020
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0373-20 IKEA Australia
This television advertisement features various people walking through a field and turning on lights hanging from trees and lamps on tables.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
February 2021
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0022-21 Audi Australia
This television advertisement is for the Audi Etron. It features a man and his dog imagining the vehicle in different scenarios.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
May 2018
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0214-18 IAG Insurance
NRMA has used Hunters And Collectors "Throw Your Arms Around Me" as their theme song.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 09/05/2018
May 2016
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0218-16 ANZ Banking Group Ltd
A young man of Middle Eastern appearance is attempting to pay for a carton of milk and offers his mobile phone by holding it up, ready to push the button. The shop assistant and customers all look concerned - the ad zooms in on the eye of the purchaser and people walking into the store view what is going on and back out. Once the EFTPOS machine is ready, the young man pays for his milk and everyone breathes a sigh of relief. The young man looks at the shop assistant and looks puzzled as to why everyone is concerned.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 25/05/2016
June 2016
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0246-16 LHD Lawyers
An advertisement for the possible need of Lawyers to make a claim.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
July 2015
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0273-15 Yum Restaurants International
Sexualized food, portrayed as erection of bacom resulting in pizza huts "love "child. Illegitimate child.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
June 2017
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0277-17 Sportsbet
Guy on cycle in gym alluding to drug use enhancing performance being ok whilst betting on line.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 21/06/2017
August 2015
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0293-15 Coca-Cola Amatil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5SkVB1oHDcThe commercial uses Sweet Brown's popular upbeat song "Aint nobody got time for that" to engage the audience. In the first scene you see a woman with an overfilled blender of watermelon juice going everywhere. The next scene a person trying to smash a coconut with their hand, the next a boy smashing a watermelon with a baseball bat, these scenes continue with people essentially trying to open fruit in its raw form in over exaggerated methods.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
July 2017
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0300-17 HTH Group
A tradesman is depicted cutting his salad role with a drop saw while using a wreck less and rapid motion while advertising the brand and paying far more attention to the camera crew and smirking throughout the entire stunt. This ad is insulting to all tradesmen who take pride in their profession and work to strict Work-safe and OH&S standards and practices. Safety during an apprentice is of utmost importance to tradesmen.
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 12/07/2017
August 2016
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0319-16 ACMN
Advertisement to sell concert tickets.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
July 2017
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0323-17 Launceston Show Girls
Very scantily clad women viewed from shoulders down strolling through nightclub to promote Launceston Showgirls
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
January 2019
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0020-19 Specsavers Pty Ltd
Male subject attaching basketball ring to a car garage door instead of above it.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
0024-19 WR Engineering
The advertisement involves two men discussing how "she's still looking good after all these years" while overlooking a woman gardening. The woman then realises the men are discussing a garage door.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
February 2016
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0028-16 Yum Restaurants International
A person dressed as a chicken, riding a skateboard on a winding road.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016
February 2016
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0036-16 NPS Medicinewise
A man is trying to pick up a woman at a bar. She has gonorrhea. This starts a discussion about how gonorrhea is more antibiotic resistant now because of overuse of antibiotics.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 24/02/2016
September 2016
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0370-16 Ladbroke.com.au
There was a elderly man with alcohol spitting from his mouth as he appeared to cheer in slow motion at what was implied to be a live sporting event in what appeared to be a public venue with liquor licence. Secondly, the voice over seemed to imply that the statistical odds, randomness and chance that is involved when placing live begging can somehow be "overcome" by intellect or by utilising the product "ladbrokes".
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 14/09/2016
October 2015
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0374-15 Sojo Pty Ltd
Describing men's underwear and makes inappropriate references to the male anatomy.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 14/10/2015
0401-15 Edgewell
The ad had three bikini clad woman walking in and stopping with bonsai plants in front of their crotch. They then proceeded to trim the bonsai. This implied they were trimming their crotch.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 14/10/2015
March 2018
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0072-18 Swarovski International (Aust) Pty Ltd
The ad shows men giving men a ring and a woman giving a woman a ring and a man giving a woman q ring. The man giving a man a ring gives him a passionate kiss. This is unacceptable behavior on television advertising. Gorcing young people and yes teens stay up to 11pm to see this is wrong. It gives them the idea that being gay and givibg open displays of affection is acceptableit is not.It also elevates the idea that their relationship is deeper than a man and a womans.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 07/03/2018
0096-18 AAMI
The new AAMI advertisement is set on a construction site where a younger apprentice is given a hammer to take care of, he uses the hammer and it falls into concrete, everyone is looking at it then the AAMI girl walks over and pulls it out of the concrete and raises it in the air, this is a take-on the Marvel comic character THOR and his hammer (Thor being the only one who can pull the hammer and his characteristic holding it in the air).
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 07/03/2018
March 2016
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0076-16 Kellogg (Aust) Pty Ltd
There was a Kellogg's ad around 8:05pm which showed women touching their breasts while wearing bras and words such as "Boobs" were used.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 09/03/2016
October 2014
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0429-14 Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund
In the ad a man lines up some people and questions them about their food. They answer army style. If the answer is no then he throws away the food they have.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 22/10/2014
November 2014
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0458-14 Cancer Coucil Australia
Details cancer awareness within the community
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
November 2015
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0462-15 OPSM Pty Ltd
A man holding sunglasses observes the beach and sun from a balcony then skateboards to the beach to meet friends having a BBQ.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
April 2018
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0148-18 Hyundai Motor Company Australia Pty Ltd
Hyundai I20 - Shows a person sitting in a vehicle whilst being towed on the trailer of a truck on a road, which is illegal on an Australian road
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 11/04/2018
October 2019
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0337-19 13cabs
This television advertisement features a man wearing lycra walking into his garage and putting on a helmet. He sighs and readjusts his shorts. He then takes off his helmet and walks back into the house. The words '13cabs, official travel partner of CBF'd' appear on screen.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 23/10/2019
January 2020
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0001-20 Yum Restaurants International
This television advertisement features a young woman looking at her reflection in the window of a parked car. She is dressed as though she is going to a festival, turns to check herself out from behind, then leans over and adjusts her breasts. The car window winds down to reveal two preteen boys and an unimpressed mother. The woman says, 'did someone say KFC?'. And is then seen eating KFC with a friend.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
November 2018
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0508-18 IAG Insurance
Man rides motorcycle to shops repeating milk and toilet paper over and over, then stops to urinate on a tree before continuing to ride to shops.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 28/11/2018

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