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June 2002
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129-02 Nova 100
Nova 100 - naked man bending over, being smacked on bum with paddle wielded by woman - sounds of metal being hit "Sounds different"
Dismissed Media 11/06/2002
May 2018
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0253-18 The West Australian
Picture of a man lying on the ground being mauled by a lion. https://imgur.com/a/NnieOOL
Dismissed Media Internet - Social - Facebook 23/05/2018
December 2008
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528-08 ACP Publishing Pty Ltd
ACP Publishing P/L - Zoo Weekly - scantily clad Honey
Dismissed Media 17/12/2008
March 2000
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58-00 Sydney Morning Herald (The)
Sydney Morning Herald - Ku Klux Klan
Dismissed Media 14/03/2000
57-00 Sydney Morning Herald (The)
Sydney Morning Herald - male homosexual
Dismissed Media 14/03/2000
44-00 ARN Communications Pty Ltd
ARN Communications - 2WS FM - 'You have an amazing mouth'
Dismissed Media 14/03/2000
August 2007
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222-07 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - 2DAYFM - Kyle & Jackie O - tongue kissing with open mouths - drool drips from Kyle's mouth as they part
Dismissed Media 14/08/2007
March 2012
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0111-12 ACP Publishing Pty Ltd
A 15 second TV advertisement featuring images and articles from the February issue of CLEO magazine. A female voice over tells of some of the exciting stories inside. It also promotes a Seduce dress reader offer. The ad concludes by showing the cover of the magazine and the message that it is out now - it features Ruby Rose on the cover.
Dismissed Media 28/03/2012
March 2003
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46-03 News Ltd
News Ltd - The Australian - 'The Aussies are coming' - Qantas promotion - homosexual waiter prepares Vegemite.
Dismissed Media 11/03/2003
October 2010
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0398-10 SBS Corporation
The one third of a page advertisment appeared in the 20 September issue of The Australian magazine. The advertisment was aimed at Father's Day with the headline DAD. DVD. DONE. It contained 6 DVD covers for sport in the World Cup Highlights, short stories in Erotic Tales and a Danish mystery The Killing. Erotic Tales is classified as an R restriction. The cover of Erotic Tales is a slightly unfocused shot of a womans torso.
Dismissed Media Print 27/10/2010
0401-10 Channel Nine Go
Image of a woman from her shoulders up, and the heads of two men. We cannot see any clothing on the woman, and she has her neck stretched so that her head is tilted back. Her eyes are wide open and she is staring in to the distance. One of the men appears to be licking her neck, the other man has his mouth open but is not touching the woman, or the other man. In the top left of the poster it says: "The Vampire Diaries season 2 Love Ssucks" and at the bottom right it says: "Go! Mon 8.30 Aussie first".
Dismissed Media Poster 27/10/2010
February 2004
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33-04 Nova 100
Nova 100 - assembly line - woman gets "yellow liquid" poured over head as she lefts it up for inspection
Dismissed Media 17/02/2004
32-04 Nova 100
Nova 100 - Frankenstein - useless male nipples used as electrical switches
Dismissed Media 17/02/2004
March 1998
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11-98 ACP Publishing Pty Ltd
ACP Publishing - Cosmopolitan magazine - homosexual fantasies
Dismissed Media 10/03/1998
May 2003
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116-03 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - 92.9 - people dancing and removing clothes.
Dismissed Media 13/05/2003
144-03 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - Fox FM - people dancing and removing clothes.
Dismissed Media 13/05/2003
February 2007
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16-07 SBS Corporation
SBS - (Internet) - "Fortunately not everyone has less on over summer" - older couple in brief swimwear on sun lounges, overweight man mowing lawn, skinny guy dives in pool and loses shorts
Dismissed Media Internet 13/02/2007
June 2000
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178-00 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - 'Hit By Traffic' - head shots of business people, some with scratches and bruises - 'Radio keeps them coming'.
Dismissed Media Print 13/06/2000
177-00 ACP Publishing Pty Ltd
ACP Publishing - Women's Weekly - 'We're Australian women'.
Dismissed Media 13/06/2000
March 2008
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70-08 Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd
TCN Channel Nine - Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles - woman holding gun
Dismissed Media Outdoor 12/03/2008
67-08 EMAP Australia Pty Ltd
Emap - Zoo Weekly - girl on swing in office and shots of new issue - girl who won "boob job" and Emily Scott "wearing next to nothing"
Dismissed Media 12/03/2008
77-08 Seven Network Ltd (i7)
Seven Network - Dirty Sexy Money billboard with Donald Sutherland
Dismissed Media Outdoor 12/03/2008
May 2001
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102-01 Nova 969 Pty Ltd
Nova 969 - 96.9 FM - woman spanks naked man
Dismissed Media 08/05/2001
December 1998
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201-98 Murdoch Magazines Pty Ltd
Murdoch Magazines - FCTV
Dismissed Media Radio 08/12/1998
March 2007
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74-07 Fairfax Digital
Fairfax Digital - domain.com.au - sounds of couple having sex, neighbour banging on wall to keep noise down as he needs to get up for work in morning - sex couple are his parents
Dismissed Media Radio 13/03/2007
September 2004
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238-04 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - Triple m - Olympic Water Polo - should be sharks in pool
Dismissed Media 14/09/2004
June 2012
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0235-12 EMAP Australia Pty Ltd
The Advertisement depicts two men going to a late night kebab shop. A woman wearing a low cut dress serves them a very large kebab. The Advertisement then cuts to the front cover of Zoo magazine followed by several others pages from the magazine featuring different women wearing bikinis.
Dismissed Media 27/06/2012
June 1999
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175-99 Arena Television Pty Ltd
Arena Television - "Woman wearing dotted pants and top"
Dismissed Media Print 08/06/1999
168-99 ACP Publishing Pty Ltd
ACP Publishing - Ralph - Poster of bikini-model.
Dismissed Media Outdoor 08/06/1999
December 2010
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0508-10 EMAP Australia Pty Ltd
The advertisement opens with a very busty young woman serving an enormous kebab to two young men from a kebab van. One of the men is wearing a white tshirt with Zoo written in large red letters across his chest. A male voice over then describes the Zoo 2011 calendar featuring the "sexiest Zoo cover girls" which is free with the next issue of the magazine, and the calendar is shown on screen.
Dismissed Media 08/12/2010
April 2003
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101-03 News Ltd
News Ltd - The Australian - Troops as 'patriots or pawns?'
Dismissed Media 08/04/2003
May 2008
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133-08 Trading Post Australia Pty Ltd
Trading Post - swing - young boy keeps pushing his little sister in the back, pushes tables & chairs, holds closed garage door so Mum can't get her car out etc so parents use Trading Post to buy a swing so he can push his sister
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Media 19/05/2008
November 1999
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371-99 Austar Entertainment Pty Ltd
Austar - "When you're not getting enough"
Dismissed Media Radio 09/11/1999
August 2011
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0277-11 WSFM
Radio advertisement featuring a male presenter talking about the weather and saying it is "looking a bit shh". He repeats the word "shh" a few times and the clarity of the advert is such that you think he would have been saying "shit". A voiceover then goes on to promote digital radio for a static free reception and says to go to digitalradioplus.com.au for your nearest retailer.
Dismissed Media Radio 10/08/2011
May 1998
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56-98 Triple M Broadcasting Company Pty Ltd The
Triple M Broadcasting - "flick knife"
Dismissed Media 12/05/1998
August 2004
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208-04 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - Triple M - Olympic Netball - "netball's a chick's game. Men should be nowhere near it"
Dismissed Media 10/08/2004
September 2005
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238-05 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - Triple M - monkey named Barry wearing clothes & choosing music
Dismissed Media 13/09/2005
October 2001
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244-01 FOXTEL Management Pty Ltd
FOXTEL - FOX Footy Channel - Pope kisses football
Dismissed Media 09/10/2001
March 2005
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37-05 Nova 100
Nova 100 - animated Hughesy, Kate & Dave characters lure a Nova 100 logo into the car, there is also reckless driving and a character being swung around on a Hills Hoist clothes line
Dismissed Media 08/03/2005
April 2001
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57-01 FOXTEL Management Pty Ltd
FOXTEL - 'Jesus'
Dismissed Media 10/04/2001
July 2006
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241-06 EMAP Australia Pty Ltd
Emap - Zoo Weekly - person walking into aeroplane's propeller blades and getting chopped up
Dismissed Media 11/07/2006
May 2010
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0178-10 Choice Magazine
This Print advertisement depicts image of man sitting in fridge wearing a beenie and and white coat with caption "After testing 48 fridges, Petr has gone to all extremes to get you the best buy". A special subscription offer '4 issues for just $4' is featured with caption in small print 'Petr has been a Product Tester for 11 years'.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Media Print 12/05/2010
August 1998
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104-98 Network Ten Pty Limited
Network Ten - Cinema "Turn Me On"
Dismissed Media Cinema 11/08/1998
August 2018
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0354-18 Stan
Relating to the show "Who is America" for streaming service Stan. Features the phrase 'dick pics' and several instances of 'fucking' being obviously beeped out. 
Dismissed Media Radio 22/08/2018
August 2003
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235-03 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - Fox FM - Matt & Tracy - 'dwarf throwing'.
Dismissed Media 12/08/2003
October 2002
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244-02 ACP Publishing Pty Ltd
ACP Publishing - Ralph - woman in pale brown and white underwear apparently nude, leaning forward on hands
Dismissed Media Outdoor 08/10/2002
May 2004
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99-04 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - 2DayFM/92.9 - "Crack the Code" competition - cartoon hippo wearing g-string exposing buttocks
Dismissed Media 11/05/2004
February 2000
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11-00 FHM
FHM magazine - February 2000 cover - 'Annalise Braakensiek comes out of her shell'
Dismissed Media Outdoor 08/02/2000
November 2006
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438-06 Austereo Pty Ltd
Austereo - Triple M - cartoon woman giving birth in operating theatre starts popping out babies which pile up still attached by their umbilical cords - "Our station plays more songs by bands who have impregnated groupies"
Dismissed Media 14/11/2006
October 1999
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320-99 Australian Consolidated Press
Australian Consolidated Press - Dingo Magazine
Dismissed Media Radio 12/10/1999

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