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September 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort descending
0424-18 Tribe Breweries
The Instagram post dated July 12th 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BlIXqc3AGIf/?hl=en) depicts two social media influencers with one drinking a bottle of Wilde Beer.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0428-18 Specsavers Pty Ltd
Here is the link to the Ad https://youtu.be/OoBeg5rI08USpecsavers set up a fake research coming and ask people how much they would sell there eyes for. People are horrified and say no money is worth being blind.
Dismissed Health Products Internet - Social - Facebook 26/09/2018
0403-18 Pretty Little Thing
The ad features women posing on horses and cars. 
Dismissed Clothing TV - Pay 26/09/2018
0420-18 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
Driving a new VW Polo car by a young man with his father preceded by his life history of accidents and crazy stunts.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0423-18 Tribe Breweries
The Instagram post dated July 25th 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BloaWL8gpar/?taken-by=wilde_beer) depicts two social media influencers with one holding a bottle of Wilde Beer.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0427-18 Specsavers Pty Ltd
This specsavers ad asks people to put a $worth in their eyes. And continues to portray what their life would be like without sight. 
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0436-18 Ubank
This television advertisement features a little girl playing with a doll on the floor as her parents eat dinner with friends. The girl is pretending she is on the phone to the bank about her home loan application, and says the words "You're the fifth *beep* person I've spoken to this week".
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0406-18 The Firm Gentlemens Club
The Firm has an advertisement that airs frequently at night about their business. Shoes a woman in lingerie, you can see her nipple. Then an another woman in a G-string and full view backside.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0410-18 Lion
The Instagram post dated August 1st 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl7laIRHo5R/?tagged=summerbrightlager) depicts two young women and two young men drinking and 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:   “ Exactly where we want to be ????
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0415-18 Bondi Perfume
This advertisement features an over-exaggerated negative depiction of an Italian family. They are portrayed as hairy sexual predators. 
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
October 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort descending
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
October 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort descending
0460-18 Koala Sleep
The ad describes a comparison between people with red hair and the company's mattresses.
Dismissed House Goods Services Radio 24/10/2018
0466-18 Craveable Brands
Advertising $5 red rooster pack. A father uses a large drill to drill into a wall which has a TV on the other side. The drill goes through the TV.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0447-18 Kelly Co Vending
It is advertising on a vending machine , where you can purchase wipe on sexual appeal. The image is of a naked woman crouching down in stilettos with a whip.
Dismissed Sex Industry Promotional Material 24/10/2018
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
0471-18 General Pants Group
A large window display with various photos of girls on the beach. . These included a girl from the waist up, completely nude with only two flowers covering her breasts.
Dismissed Clothing Poster 24/10/2018
0450-18 Honey Birdette
Two women in red lace underwear stand facing each other. The caption states 'Surrender to her command CANDICE"
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 24/10/2018
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

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