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January 2017
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0536-16 Coty Australia Pty Ltd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNVxgvxMjnAThe perfume is called Decadance
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 18/01/2017
February 2017
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0552-16 Lottoland
Lottoland. All the lotto land with the grandma hiding her gambling habits on her mobile.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
January 2020
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0002-20 Yum Restaurants International
This television advertisement features a student doing an exam when he notices his friend outside eating chicken. He says 'bucket' and leaves the exam to go get chicken.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0017-20 Pretty Little Thing
This television advertisement opens on a Paris cityscape and features the band Little Mix. Scenes include: Montage of Little Mix posing around carousel in various outfits; Montage of Little Mix posing around decadent dining room in various outfits; Montage of Little Mix posing from viewpoint with Eiffel Tower; Group shot of Little Mix infront of Eiffel Tower.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0022-20 Prime Video
This television advertisement is for season three of the television series The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
March 2020
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0110-20 PharmaCare
This television advertisement depicts three children as a voiceover states "fussy eater" (little girl in pink shirt), "super active" (young boy wearing medal and holding soccer ball), "having a growth spurt" (little boy in green shirt). A woman comes is then depicted stating: "When kids need a vitamin boost they'll love, I trust Kids Smart Vita Gummies. Packing with healthy nutrition to help support healthy growth and development, immunity, thinking brains and strong bones. No matter how fussy they are, kids love Kids Smart Vita Gummies."
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 25/03/2020
April 2020
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0143-20 Prime Video
This television advertisement features scenes from the comedy special 'All talk' by Celia Pacquola.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 22/04/2020
May 2018
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0224-18 Yum Restaurants International
TV commercial promoting a lunch time "special offer" food product ( chicken lunch ) depicting apparent Asian travelers conducting a currency exchange at a beach location in order to possess Australian currency to then be able to purchase the product being advertised.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 09/05/2018
July 2020
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0216-20 Amazon Prime Video
This television advertisement is a promotion for the program Last One Laughing in which a group of comedians are locked in a room together, and features scenes from the program interspersed with the comedians speaking to camera in an interview style.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 22/07/2020
June 2017
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0228-17 Unilever Australasia
Television Commercial Brand: Continental Foods (Unilever)Shows scenes of produce being grown; farmland scenes plus many visuals depicting associated healthy environmental and biodiversity - especially butterflies, frogs and ladybugsTagline: In Harmony with Nature
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
0233-17 ABC Tissue Products Pty Ltd
Displaying topless baby (Cupid) dancing in the clouds - hip hop, suggestive style.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
August 2020
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0251-20 McDonald’s Australia Limited
This television advertisement depicts a family on a busy weekend morning, getting ready, stopping for coffee and then going to a child's soccer match.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 26/08/2020
December 2020
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0357-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement features a couple packing up in the bush and realising their dog is completely covered in mud. They use Siri in the vehicle to navigate to a dog groomer. The muddy dog is bundled out of the backseat and the scene changes to the clean dog re-entering the car. The woman looks at the man and notices that he also looks different and cleaner. They then have a conversation where he sheepishly says that he took up a 2-for-1 offer at the dog groomer.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0368-20 ZURU Inc.
This television advertisement for a robotic fish depicts children placing the fish into a glass coffee percolator jug, and a man seeing the fish in the jug.
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
January 2021
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0386-20 Optus Communications
This television advertisement features a woman looking out a window speaking into a phone. A group of children can be seen across the road attempting to retrieve a frisbee from a roof with a makeshift pole and hook. The woman continues to give directions over the phone. They eventually knock the frisbee off the roof.
Dismissed Mobile Phone or SMS TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
April 2021
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0078-21 Reckitt Benckiser
This television advertisement for Finish dishwashing features a comparison between hand washing dishes and dishwashers.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
June 2016
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0256-16 Sanitarium Health Food Company
Customer picked iced coffee instead of up and go.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0237-16 Health World Limited
Inner Health Plus animated characters advertise all products are good for you and are cool in the fridge
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0241-16 A2 Milk
A2 Platinum® Premium Infant Formula, Follow-on Formula and Toddler Milk Drink are nutritionally tailored providing key age-specific ingredients which are essential for growth and development.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
May 2021
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0108-21 Super Cheap Auto Pty Ltd
This television advertisement features staff discussing a sale. One suggests that the store should sell dog costumes and robotic arms.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 12/05/2021
July 2014
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0260-14 COUGARLIFE.COM
A man approaches a woman at a desk, I think she's a lowly receptionist, and he asks her if he knows her. She says something like yes I was your professor at university. They end up having sex. I think she actually bakes him a pie. A shot of the website shows a lady cougar filling out a profile. She's a whopping 34 years old.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0281-14 My Plates
Man sitting in car picks his nose, staring at his snot on his finger, looks around the car for a place to wipe his finger and wipes it on the car door. This is pixelated but still clear as to what is happening. The idea being 'get female number plates to keep your husbands/partner out of your car by buying 'girly' number plates.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
July 2021
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0217-21 The Firm Gentlemens Club
This television advertisement depicts several woman in bras, garter belts and g-strings dancing around poles and with each other.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 28/07/2021
June 2017
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0271-17 Smart Homes for Living
A middle aged woman getting lost in the house after going to the bathroom as the house is so big. She needs to call on her mobile to her son to get directions and apologises for getting lost near the second bathroom while others laugh at her
Dismissed Real Estate TV - Free to Air 21/06/2017
0275-17 Yum Restaurants International
Advertisement of a group of mum’s on bouncy castle throwing popcorn chicken into each other’s mouths at a children’s party whilst children look on at their antics. 22nd May 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL1llgBzccM Television commercial screened during ‘The Voice’ Monday night 22nd May 2017.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 21/06/2017
January 2015
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0004-15 Yum Restaurants International
Adult male and female child on couch watching TV ...male feigns swearing 'buck' child frowns ... and coins are placed in a container marked swearing ...etc to associate swearing with a food product viz. Kentucky Fried Chicken ...followed by Australian Cricket Captain in Waiting George Bailey admitting live ...via personal microphone on the field ...
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 28/01/2015
0012-15 Calvin Klein Perfume
A 30 second ad on tv, while watching better homes and gardens. Calvin Klein's "Eternity" Perfume.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 28/01/2015
September 2014
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0350-14 My Plates
A young boy asking to borrow his dads car and instead of using his mothers decides to walk.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 10/09/2014
February 2016
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0044-16 Sportsbet
A group of men are in a pub and one of them is betting on his phone. At the end of the ad, thanks to some gambling success, the men embrace. A voiceover says words like "that's enough of that", and the men look sheepish and recoil from one another.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 24/02/2016
March 2015
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0056-15 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Ford tv commercial advertising the plate run out sale
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 11/03/2015
October 2015
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0385-15 Universal Pictures
The add was a trailer for a thriller movie that aired at 7:20.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 14/10/2015
March 2019
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0075-19 GoDaddy.com
Ray Meagher promoting how he built a website to sell fragrance. At 17 seconds he says "even an old bloke like me did it". 
Dismissed Information Technology TV - Free to Air 20/03/2019
September 2018
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0416-18 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 - Free to Air 26/09/2018
October 2016
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0436-16 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
The latest Mitsubishi ad shows a vehicle driving through water, among other environments and natural landscapes.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
November 2014
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0444-14 Cancer Council WA
It's a series of adverts, where the mum dies and leaves her kids behind due to smoking
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
November 2016
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0448-16 Makita
Man in his front yard behind a white picket fence. He sees a lady running bye- she turns to say hello and he smiles and then there is a shot of him of him sexual gesturing behind the fence- the women gives him a disgusted look. The fence then falls down to reveal the action was actually the vibrating power tool.
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
October 2017
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0461-17 NEDS
The ad showed a family/friends. A man answered his phone and it was a telemarketer. He pretended it was work and dismissed himself from the room and settled into a chair in another room and got his phone out...it said 'time to bet'. With Neds app appearing on the screen.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
April 2018
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0144-18 Cosmax Prestige Pty Ltd
It was a perfume ad, a man in a white speedo dove off a cliff down to a woman in a white bikini floating on a donut, then they embraced and made out and she pulled down his speedo, then the ad cut to the product
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 11/04/2018
April 2017
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0165-17 iSelect Pty Ltd
Cheap, tacky, innuendo about sexual partners as an analogy for selecting an insurance partner. 
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 26/04/2017
December 2014
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0511-14 ASSA ABLOY
An ad for LOCKWOOD Digital Door Lock. A woman appears to be locked out of her home when putting the garbage out but the voiceover says "just use the finger" and she holds her index finger up to then put in the key pad code to enter her home.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
August 2019
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0256-19 SOJO Pty Ltd
There are three versions of this television advertisement for tradies underwear featuring Chrarlotte Caslick, Nick Cummins and Danielle Scott.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 21/08/2019
September 2019
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0291-19 Volvo Car Australia
In the opening scenes of the advertisement, a woman is depicted leaving her home and saying goodbye to her partner as she prepares to set off into the stress of a working day. Separately, a young girl is shown leaving her family home in the morning to go to school. The advertisement follows these two people until their paths cross when the girl steps onto a crossing and the woman's vehicle uses its technology to avoid a collision with the girl.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 25/09/2019
0308-19 South Australian Tourism Commission
This television advertisement depicts an elderly man visiting tourist sites in South Australia.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Travel TV - Free to Air 25/09/2019
January 2019
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0546-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
McRib advertised by McDonalds - Two children eating McRib's at the beach with a voice overlay as a man walks past in speedos.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
December 2019
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0397-19 Optus Communications
This television advertisement depicts four elderly women around a table as they wait for a fifth woman to arrive on her mobilty scooter. Text on screen states "5G Explained by 5Grannies- Presented by OPTUS".
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
February 2021
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0014-21 Victorian Department of Health and Human Services
There are four versions of this television advertisement which feature a scene of a man fishing in the background at the start of the advertisement.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
April 2021
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0085-21 Sojo Pty Ltd
This television advertisement features Nick Cummings and Danielle Scott wearing underwear. Danielle dances and it is shown that Nick is using a leafblower to add wind. They switch and Nick stands in a Superman pose as Danielle uses the leafblower.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 28/04/2021
June 2018
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0257-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The adult (man) & child are in a workshop building something. The man hammers his finger accidentally and it implies that he swears in front of the child. He then is putting money in a jar labelled “swear jar”. He then takes his child to buy McDonald's with the rewards of coins from all the swearing he’s done.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
July 2018
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0308-18 National Pharmacies
One scene shows a close up of the semi naked rear of a young boy fiddling with his swimming costume and buttocks region, in slow motion.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 11/07/2018
January 2018
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0009-18 Microsoft Pty Ltd
An offensive, insensitive, dangerous and grossly inaccurate TV Commercial for HP computers depicting a "friendly" killer Great White shark.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 24/01/2018

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