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February 2018
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0026-18 Ultra Tune Australia
Three women are driving to a costume party, and hit a tiger. Mike Tyson then makes an appearance.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 07/02/2018
October 2019
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0318-19 Supercheap Auto
This television advertisement depicts three cars and a boat driving at speed to deliver a package.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 09/10/2019
February 2015
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0030-15 Peters
The advertisement is for an ice-cream and involves scenes at the beach and surrounding areas and a song about the product. In one scene a woman walks past a group of men that make a comment about her appearance.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 11/02/2015
February 2016
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0034-16 Offshore Surf
Ad for surf shop
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 24/02/2016
January 2020
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0003-20 McDonald's Australia Limited
This television dvertisement shows various different people waking up after a big night. In the final scene, one of the people is answering the door to a McDonald’s food delivery. End frame shows the McDelivery and Uber Eats logo.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0032-20 Trivago
This television advertisement features two women at a hotel check-in desk. One woman is older with grey hair, while the other appears to be in her 20s or 30s. The older woman is quoted her price and goes to pay, but as she hands over her card the younger woman is quoted a price that is less than hers. The younger woman explains the benefits of using Trivago to book accommodation.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0023-20 Mitchell's Quality Foods
Series of TV commercials promoting the Lite n' Easy Jump Start weight loss program. It features multiple Lite n' Easy testimonials who have lost weight using Lite n' Easy.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0019-20 LTD Rentals
This television advertisement features a group of elderly people being herded towards a bus by a man on a horse with a whip.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
February 2015
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0043-15 Toppik
Adding product to hair to give thickness and volume.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 25/02/2015
October 2015
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0376-15 Super Cheap Auto Pty Ltd
The fathers day television advertisement shows a vehicle up on axle stands and a father underneath the vehicle and the child laid on a skateboard goes under the vehicle as well
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 14/10/2015
July 2020
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0218-20 Conga Foods
This television advertisement for Squeaky Gate Olive Oil features a fictional cooking show celebrity making a comeback on her new program ‘The Way it Should Be’. It opens with a host talking to camera about features and benefits of the brand before going off script.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 22/07/2020
September 2017
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0395-17 Paramount Pictures Australia
Movie trailer - advertising a horror movie called Mother
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 13/09/2017
August 2020
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0252-20 SOJO Pty Ltd
This television advertisement depicts two men with towels around their waists spraying deodorant in each others armpits and on themselves. The men smell themselves and make sounds as they do so.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 26/08/2020
March 2019
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0070-19 Subaru (Aust) Pty Ltd
The father and son are driving on a country road and stop for a train. The father is annoyed about having to wait but turns to the child and sees delight. The next scene they are standing in front of the car past the stop crossed signs watching the train pass
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 06/03/2019
October 2020
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0288-20 Chemist Warehouse
This television advertisement for Optifast features various scenes of a woman interspersed with a spokesman
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 07/10/2020
March 2019
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0082-19 Kellogg (Aust) Pty Ltd
The advertisement is a 15 second film clip showing children playing in a tree house. The tree house has a sign saying ‘no grown ups’. The children are hoisting a dog in a basket up into their tree house. A woman is shown standing below the tree house with a box of Kellogg’s choc chip LCMs. When she opens the box, individual puffs of rice and chocolate chips float up into the air towards the tree house and form into a bar that appears in the hand of one of the children, who looks at it with amazement.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 20/03/2019
November 2020
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0338-20 McDonald’s Australia Limited
This television advertisement features well-known personalities from the Block television series.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 25/11/2020
April 2019
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0086-19 Unilever Australasia
Television advertisement for Lipton iced tea stating that their ingredients are tea leaves and peaches.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 03/04/2019
March 2018
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0094-18 FOXTEL Management Pty Ltd
Ad for Foxtel sport subscription.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 07/03/2018
September 2017
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0423-17 Youfoodz
Child I believe to be impersonating Gordon Ramsey selling a ready made food.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 27/09/2017
October 2016
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0427-16 Roadshow Film Distributors Pty Ltd
Advertisement for the movie Blair Witch.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
November 2015
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0431-15 St George Group
I am writing in regards to the St George commercial in which a young boy, approx age 8-9 is seen doing board flips on his skateboard. His sister is sitting nearby watching him.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
November 2016
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0451-16 Shedd
The advertisement shows young, very swim women, in various poses, and clothing simply falling off them, or is inferred to fall off them. Various types of clothing is dictated in this manner, including a bikini top and a very clear crutch Close up that explicitly focuses female genital.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
October 2018
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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
April 2015
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0141-15 Clubs NSW
Club NSW advertisement features a range of scenarios of "bringing people together", mainly depicting social events within clubs and celebrations, but including family event.
Dismissed Bars/Clubs TV - Free to Air 29/04/2015
January 2015
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0480-14 Federal Tyres Cairns
This is only the approximate time and date of the Advertisement, but has been played a number of times.It advertises Federal Tyres in Cairns, and at the end of the advertisement, the ad features the owner doing a massive burnout in the driveway of the tyre retail store of Federal Tyres.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Free to Air 28/01/2015
November 2017
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0484-17 Yum Restaurants International
Mothers and daughters in 2 cars at traffic lights. One has a trophy from a competition and other has purchased take away. Ad is promoting the fast food as better than trophy. Also shows cynical looks from mother and girl towards girl who has succeeded in competition.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/11/2017
April 2018
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0165-18 The Proactiv Company
TV ad for Proactiv Skin Care
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 11/04/2018
January 2016
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0511-15 Patties Foods Pty Ltd
The TV advertisement promotes Patties Party Pies. The advertisement opens with a mother taking Party Pies out of the oven and calling, “Daniel, the Party Pies are ready”. Music similar to the Star Wars theme then begins as the family heads towards the kitchen in slow motion to eat the Party Pies, chanting to the song. Their son then appears dressed as an astronaut walking slowly down the stairs to the kitchen, as the parents continue chanting to the music and thumping the table. The boy sits at the table and takes off his helmet as the father passes him a party pie.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
November 2017
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0524-17 Harvey Norman
Harvey Norman, children placing hands and face on ovens & cooktops.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 22/11/2017
May 2015
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0180-15 Planet ARK
Describing the environmental benefits of wood. Presented by Peter Maddison.On youtube: https://youtu.be/3lmAAkjIzKs
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 13/05/2015
January 2015
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0539-14 Road Safety Advisory Council
Puppets trying to promote road safety and take a pledge
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 14/01/2015
0547-14 Motor Accident Commission SA
Drink and drive? Grow up
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 14/01/2015
January 2017
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0587-16 Harley-Davidson Australia Pty Ltd
A man riding a motor bike then taking a toddler on it driving it home.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 18/01/2017
June 2015
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0210-15 Nestle Australia Ltd
A man, dressed only in an apron, extols the virtues of Nestle Condensed Milk. In front of him is a table full of baked goods, supposedly made with condensed milk.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/06/2015
June 2017
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0241-17 Samsung Electronics Aust Pty Ltd
It showed an Ostrich with a "gadget" on its face and it was running very fast. I would image the Ostrich was terrified and that is why it was running. Then it fell.
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
June 2018
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0261-18 Nissan Motor Co (Aust) Pty Ltd
The advertisement is a series of shots of a woman going about her daily business, all the while being bombarded with input from other people in her day to day life. The footage then shifts to her driving a Nissan SUV.The video is available in full on the Nissan youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg0zkBK_AEM
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
July 2016
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0307-16 Global Shop Direct
This is an advertisement for a plastic "welding" product that a person can use in the home to repair broken plastic items. (Such as sunglasses, children's toys, etc)
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 27/07/2016
August 2015
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0315-15 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
A man is shopping with his partner and appers bored. His mates parachute in wiht a Triton to "rescue" him and take him to particiapte in a "more manly" activity.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
February 2016
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0004-16 Nimble Australia
A women has just come back from holidays to find that the apartment has been taken over by people, in which there is an Asian decent man in a pair of white underwear (offensive) brushing his teeth, then a man dressed in a rabbit custom which gives misleading advice to Nimble the money so that she can move.Then their is part two to the ad where the women is packing her and the Rabbit is talking away with a goat standing behind him, the goat turns around with a pair of underwear on its head and the Rabbit says "Come on Spanky"
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016
0008-16 AICS
Tv advert showing male driving a car while not watching the road and then observing some image on small girl's mobile phone, crashing car.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016
0012-16 Australian Insurance Holdings
Captain Risky does some stunts and ends the commercial urinating into his own mouth
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016
0040-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Ultra Tune selling their services by portraying 2 women in cars in 'unexpected' situations from driving off a cliff instead of reversing.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016
July 2019
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0217-19 Electrolux Home Products
Advertising a hotplate with smart controls
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
February 2014
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0020-14 Woolworths Supermarkets
There are two BWS ads with the same theme just different scenarios. The thrust is every day and any event, regardless of how trivial it may seem is a special day to celebrate and have a drink.
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 12/02/2014
September 2015
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0350-15 Johnson & Johnson Pacific Pty Ltd
Advertisement shows two cartoon characters with blocked noses one of the characters loses a load of "snot" for want of a better word all over the "floor" surrounding it. I and my family who were visiting found this disgusting. Even MY GRANDCHILDREN were saying "Yuk that was disgusting Nanna"
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 09/09/2015
September 2019
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0294-19 Vodafone Hutchison Australia
This television advertisement depicts a woman wearing a helmet as she rides a longboard down a hill.
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 25/09/2019
September 2015
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0358-15 Alpha Finance
Woman driving in car with male passenger, playing loud music and making dancing movements
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 23/09/2015
February 2019
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0031-19 Ladbroke.com.au
Ladbrokes advertising gambling on australian open. Features a close up of a woman's bust swinging a tennis raquet.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 06/02/2019
December 2019
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0399-19 Dept Justice & Community Safety - Victoria
This television advertisement portrays firefighters and bushfire survivors gathered in a community centre in rural Victoria reflecting on their shared experience. It includes flash back scenes of three fictionalised stories including a memory of a firefighter helping children escape through a fence; a woman and her partner trying to escape via a car; a family making the heartbreaking decision to leave without their pet.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019

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