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E.g., 08/07/2022
E.g., 08/07/2022
August 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0308-14 Edwards Mowers Repairs
There are three men sitting in on a log when a couple arrive in a ute. The woman stands by the back of the ute while the man removes a chainsaw from the tray and begins to cut up a tree.
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0317-14 Suncorp
GIO's ad shows a scene from a State of origin match where two men on the blues team are hugging.The ad is about home insurance.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0318-14 Bear Metal Recyclists
The advertisement is about metal recycling and shows an animated/cartoon bear with his pants down by his ankles.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0319-14 Tax Accounting & Super Centre
The images replicate a computer game. A woman walking along the street cries out "the tax man, no no" as a hooded man attacks her from behind. A super hero character flies down and he and the tax man pull out long guns and shoot each other. The tax man withers away, screaming. The woman hugs the super hero saying "you saved me".
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0324-14 Tabcorp
A woman holding a ginger cat is speaking to an unidentified person who then lifts a smart phone in front of the screen, which then blocks the view of the woman holding the cat. The ad then describes the product/features in regards to gambling.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0326-14 Cure Brain Cancer foundation
This ad showed a child in hospital with a brain tumor removal scar across his forehead. The ad was raising awareness of childhood brain tumours.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0327-14 Valvoline (Aust) Pty Ltd
I have complaints regarding two advertisements that my grandchildren and I observed during the AFL football on channel 7 on Saturday afternoon and early evening. The second ad was for VALVOLINE Oil where drivers are turned into werewolf type characters, driving very fast.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0330-14 My Plates
The advertisement features a courier ringing the doorbell of a house with a delivery for a woman named Tanya. The man who answers the door denies that this woman is at this house. The courier insists. Tanya then comes to the door, and excitedly reaches for the parcel. While she opens it, the man shakes his head and looks desperate. Tanya pulls out a bright pink numberplate. The logo is "manproof your car".
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
July 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0308-16 Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors Pty Ltd
Movie trailer with scenes from the movie.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 27/07/2016
0309-16 Mondelez Australia Pty Ltd
The advertisement was for the Cadbury chocolate bar 'Picnic'.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 27/07/2016
0310-16 Roadshow Film Distributors Pty Ltd
The advertisement for new movie "lights out". Inappropriate, horrifying, disturbing!
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 27/07/2016
July 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0308-17 Kleenheat Gas
Aim is to get people to buy kleenheat gas. It is an ad that mocks a man moving house and having a garage sale.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0309-17 Coles
Ad described how Coles brand free range eggs have reduced in price.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0310-17 The Firm Gentlemens Club
Bottom half of a young girl in a g-string dancing around a pole. Advertising a gentlemans club in the city called the firm.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0313-17 Century Batteries
TV Commercial on WIN [12.35pm] that I feel warrants urgent advice to WIN and Century battteries.Basically shows a 4WD with boat trailer attached, parked on the wrong side of a rural road, [would expect to be 100kph speeed limit] doing a jump start to a sedan, then rapidly pulling back across the road and continuing journey.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0316-17 Campbell's Australia
Buy tim tams because they are best enjoyed with others
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0318-17 NIKE Australia Pty Ltd
Man wearing Nike shoes going over barrier in museum. Both adds saying "just do it"
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0322-17 Specsavers Pty Ltd
I found the ad sexist.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
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
0326-17 L'Oreal Australia Pty Ltd
New Ad by Emporio Armani advertising Men's and Women's Fragrances
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0329-17 Crazy Horse Revue Pty Ltd
The new as for Crazy horse is vile. It shows multiple women in see through lingerie all being shown into a room with an old man seated in a chair. The women then bend over him showing their rear end in lingerie.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
July 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
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
August 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0309-15 Diabetes Australia
The advert starts off by showing the images of 280 people and then states that this is how many people are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in Australia per day. It then continues to show images of people who have suffered complications of the disease.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
0312-15 People's Choice Credit Union
The advertisement showing young people's faces being distorted by the use of high velocity air.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
0313-15 McKenzie Aged Care
McKenzie Aged Care ad.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
0314-15 Roadshow Film Distributors Pty Ltd
Advertisement for movie called 'The Gallows'. Has repeated shots to nooses, suspended feet...
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
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
0318-15 Marshall Batteries
My complaint is about the Marshall car batteries advertisement. The ad features Shane Warne and a lady in a sexual position.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
0319-15 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
One advert portrays a well dressed women fussing over a poodle telling a man to look after it. Three men in a car lower down on top of the dogs house, crushing it. The man excitedly asks the brand of the ute to which the driver replies "It's a Mitsy" and they drive off.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
0320-15 Pacific Brands Holdings Pty Ltd
Group of young women in underwear dancing along a pier/sidewalk near beach, only in bra/undies, one in leotard. The ad was celebrating 100 years of Bonds.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 12/08/2015
August 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0313-16 Telstra Corporation Ltd
People traveling in and ON the roof of a yellow bus.
Dismissed Information Technology TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0314-16 Lif3 Global
Short advert. Small boy child main character. White/light airy domestic background. Commentary on family members. Selling product Lif3 mobile phone device
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0319-16 ACMN
Advertisement to sell concert tickets.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0321-16 Brand Developers
To whom it may concern I was absolutely shocked to see the tv salesman walk under an SUV while it was resting on a ladder
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0322-16 Coles
It was Coles Supermarket ad promoting their bakery products
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0325-16 Sunrice
Advertising rice
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0326-16 Wesfarmers Kleenheat Pty Ltd
There are several different versions of this advertisement. In each, a man is telling us how we can save money. In one he holds a big piggy bank and then a huge safe falls on him and squashes him. A second man appears and says "Just switch to Kleenheat Gas". In another the first man uses a computer to calculate savings and then gets zapped and ends up trapped in the computer.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0327-16 Wesfarmers Kleenheat Pty Ltd
There are several different versions of this advertisement. In each, a man is telling us how we can save money. A man is standing on a road verge when a Giant holding a tree strikes him so hard that he flies through the air and lands flattened in a paddock. He gives a little 'twitch' and then lies still. The second man then says again "Just switch to Kleenheat Gas".
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0328-16 Wesfarmers Kleenheat Pty Ltd
There are several different versions of this advertisement. In each, a man is telling us how we can save money.  A man uses a computer to calculate savings and then gets zapped and ends up trapped in the computer.The second man turns off the computer while the first man is appealing for help. The second man again says "Just switch to Kleenheat Gas".
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0329-16 William Hill
It was comparing the differences of betting with William Hill as opposed to other betting agencies and telling people that they are the only agency where you get a credit even if you lose, it's misleading .
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
July 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0317-18 Menulog
Menu log in which several people state what they want for dinner.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
0319-18 Department of Health
There are two TV ads consisting of a montage of people engaging in various activities. The last six seconds of the ads show a person ”Bow Riding” by placing their arm in the water from a moving boat. 
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
0325-18 Best & Less
It was a Best & Less advert with women modeling underwear in a bedroom.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
0326-18 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
The marketing commercial describes a teenagers room and in particular a boy and they are advertising to use their brand to clean the house up. There is a woman standing there with the vanish product and a young teenage boy sitting on the bed. The commercial then shows all the dirty things that the teenage boy would do for example clean messy carpet, dirty shoes, Bad smell.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
August 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0321-15 Cosmetic Elegance
Two men drinking beer. One is ogling a beautiful blonde woman. The other says that's my wife, she has a new man in her life. Cut to wife at cosmetic surgeons clinic. Cut back to first man congratulating husband while wife gives big kiss.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0323-15 Freedom Insurance Pty Ltd
A couple going about their day, naked, with private parts covered by signage, food, etc.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0325-15 Trivago
An older woman entering a hotel room and grabbing the young bell hopand having sex with him as implied by the noises etc in Advert. find this very offensive as young lad looks no older than 15-16 and woman 35=40.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0326-15 Hyundai Motor Company Australia Pty Ltd
Advert shows blue vehicle. Female in the Forrest and a snake. Shows female removing belt from jeans and whipping the snake which appears to retreat..she then returns to the vehicle looking smug.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0327-15 Isuzu
They show in the add a D-max snatching another vehicle out of a bog hole.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0329-15 Woolworths Supermarkets
Big W packets of family undies.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015

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