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July 2018
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0330-18 Australian Pork
The advert shows an old, female person visiting a doctor's surgery with her spouse sitting outside in the waiting room. The woman leaves her doctor's room and tells her spouse what she thinks the doctor has advised her (they need to pork more), but she has misheard, so relates the wrong information.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
September 2014
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0354-14 Coca-Cola Amatil
A number of children not wanting to eat their vegies, but eat baked beans
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/09/2014
March 2015
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0060-15 Comparethemarket.com.au
Television commercial featuring meerkats.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 11/03/2015
September 2018
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0388-18 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
A young man is at a party when a white car driven by young woman pulls up in the driveway. He apologises for overstaying, she is upset. He proceeds to send a text message to the car audio system which converts to a text message imploring the girl to forgive him.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
September 2017
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0392-17 Cockburn Central Hyundai
The ad depicts someone suiciding off a roof. The man throws himself off the roof at the end of the ad.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 13/09/2017
March 2019
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0067-19 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
The advertisement features a woman inside her home enjoying air conditioning, whilst she watches her daughter playing in a pool outside.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 06/03/2019
February 2017
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0075-17 Local Agent Finder
Actor walking along street talking loudly about real estate agents. Voice yells shut up.
Dismissed Real Estate TV - Free to Air 22/02/2017
September 2018
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0404-18 Hanes Brands Inc
Television advertisement featuring women playing sports with various balls that are shaped like women's breasts.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
October 2016
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0416-16 Techtronic Industries Australia
The ad is for a Vax cordless slim vacuum cleaner
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 12/10/2016
April 2019
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0095-19 Paramount Pictures Australia
An adverstisment for the movie Pet Cemetery
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 03/04/2019
October 2016
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0424-16 Unilever Australasia
The ad features several people with various animals. There was only one representation of an ethnic minority who was non-white. They were of Asian descent and were depicted with a tiger. The dominant group (Anglo-Saxon or European descent) were portrayed with lions, polar bears and a puma.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
March 2017
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0099-17 Tabcorp Holdings Limited
A man walks past a horse . Whilst remembering winning a race in which he won a bet he placed on that horse, he is cuddling it and carrying on like it's the best thing. It also keeps going back to the race win.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 08/03/2017
November 2016
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0428-16 Sportsbet
If you're the sort of person who takes things which you think are free you'll like the free boost to your odds
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
July 2019
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0214-19 Fantastic Snacks Australia
Television ad with a Japanese theme , buy product to win a Holiday.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
November 2015
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0432-15 BizCover
A gentleman is receiving a body wax while the viewer is told using the insurance is not painful
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
August 2019
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0254-19 Hanes Brands Inc
Television advertisement for Bonds which refers to the glo-ball warming man-demic, and highlights a product with ball cooling technology.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 21/08/2019
October 2014
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0436-14 Jalna Dairy Foods
A woman is blindfolded and fed yogurt by a little girl then a man.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 22/10/2014
September 2019
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0286-19 People's Choice Credit Union
This television advertisement features a couple sitting on a couch. A voice over describes all the things they could do with a personal loan, including renovating their home, or get a new caravan or take off to the Bahamas.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 11/09/2019
October 2019
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0329-19 SA Health
This television advertisement depicts a man standing shirtless. It appears that hands are touching him from the inside. The advertisement promotes quitting smoking.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 09/10/2019
November 2014
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0448-14 Roadshow Film Distributors Pty Ltd
This ad has been on TV twice last night when watching extant and tonight both times it has utterly terrified me and others watching. I do not want to think about demons attaching themselves onto my innocent baby and shouldn't be forced to watch a quick terrifying commercial it is not fair and unjust, so so awful.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
October 2017
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0452-17 Telstra Corporation Ltd
A Mobil plan for $99 with free Foxtel to stream on a new phone
Dismissed Mobile Phone or SMS TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
May 2019
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0126-19 Yum Restaurants International
Kfc $2 large chips the commercial where guy is at the school he is eating from a completely different larger kfc box which they don't sell.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/05/2019
January 2020
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0020-20 Uniden Australia
This television advertisement features a voice over stating the benefits of the two way UHF radio, and images of the product in use.
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
November 2015
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0457-15 Pacific Brands Holdings Pty Ltd
Very colorful energetic advert for young women's underwear.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
October 2018
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0470-18 Repco Ltd
Advert shows someone sniffing oil fumes to guess the oil, penrite.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
May 2020
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0153-20 Global Shop Direct
This television advertisement is for the product Sara-Mia bra.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 13/05/2020
July 2020
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0222-20 Lotterywest
This television advertisement depicts a man at a sink about the wash his hands when he hears yelling from a cubicle. A man comes out of the cubicle holding toilet paper and yelling and hugs the first man.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 22/07/2020
September 2020
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0260-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement depicts a young woman driving a RAV4 with her male partner asleep in the front passenger seat. She drives over a cattle grate and the man wakes up and screams briefly.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 09/09/2020
October 2020
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0304-20 Lactalis Australia
This television advertisement features a reference to "fresh, natural Zymil".
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 07/10/2020
November 2014
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0493-14 Davey Water Products
Advertisement is for Davey Water Pumps. A lady is having a shower (can not see her, we can only hear that she is in the shower). She exclaims how happy she is with the water pressure now that they have a new pump, and says to her husband "would you like to join me?" He swears (which is beeped) and leaps out of his chair to go and join her in the shower.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
January 2016
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0497-15 Shiels Jewellers
Images of a nude man and woman embracing in a seductive pose, words popping up to describe them.. beautiful, sex etc.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0506-15 Freeview
Advert advertising Freeview TV where young girls uses the phrase "Oh My God."
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
June 2019
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0161-19 Centrefold Lounge/Men's Gallery
Advertisement states 'choose over 100 women' at the Centerfold Lounge
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
December 2020
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0366-20 Aware Super Pty Ltd
There are two versions of this television advertisement, a 45 second version and a 60 second version. Both versions feature a nurse witnessing and responding to a traffic accident.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
May 2015
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0165-15 Sportsbet
The sportsbet NRL/Rugby League multi betting advertisement. It specifically says, "Must place multi"
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 13/05/2015
0191-15 Renault Australia
I’d like to complaint about the Renault Cleo ad.  A girl, young and attractive (what else?), says in voiceover: “You can tell a lot about a person from the car they drive”.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 13/05/2015
April 2021
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0083-21 Suzuki Australia Pty Limited
This television advertisement features a man riding a car like it is a motorcycle.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 28/04/2021
February 2018
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0531-17 Holden Ltd
An add on television depicts unsafe positioning of seatbelt on a pregnant woman.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 07/02/2018
April 2018
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0187-18 Squarespace Inc
The square space advert with Keanu Reeves shows him putting a laptop into an open fire, and then squirting accelerant onto it. 
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Professional Services TV - Free to Air 24/04/2018
0198-18 Paramount Pictures Australia
A quiet place- movie trailer
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/04/2018
November 2021
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0308-21 Leukaemia Foundation
This advertisement for the Light The Night event features people placing string lights near fabric drapes.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 10/11/2021
January 2018
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0585-17 Origin Energy
It is an advert for a new natural gas supplier in Western Australia, with the headline of "he's plumbing the barbie in"
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 24/01/2018
July 2014
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0227-14 iNova Pharmaceuticals Australia Pty Ltd
The advertisement depicts two men embracing on a beach, intercut with a man in a business suit attempting to take liquid medicine via a spoon in an elevator.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 09/07/2014
June 2018
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0258-18 Woolworths Supermarkets
A father and his 3 children are driving to the shops. 1 of his children appears to be a teenager, 1 a tween and the other is younger than the tween. The kids are asking Dad to buy things at Woolworths. The youngest child asks for more eggs as he's making crocodiles out of the cartons.The next and final scene is Dad bringing the groceries back to the car. The 3 children are in the car. The youngest child asks his Dad if he remembered to buy the eggs. This implies that he wasn't shopping with his father and that the children were left in the car.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
July 2015
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0266-15 Nissan Motor Co (Aust) Pty Ltd
Commercial centred on the release of a new Nissan 4x4 utility vehicle, where it drove through a large pipe that was not restrained properly to a semi-trailer, falling off onto the ground.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
July 2015
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0282-15 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The TV advertisement promotes the Minions movie and a McDonald’s meal featuring a Quarter Pounder, Fries, Coke and Minions McFlurry.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 22/07/2015
July 2017
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0297-17 Hyundai Motor Company Australia Pty Ltd
Hyundai advertising a 4 day sale and $1000 factory bonus.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/07/2017
July 2016
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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
February 2016
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0005-16 Entertainment One
Preview of upcoming movie release 'Dirty Grandpa'.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016
0009-16 Carlton and United Breweries
Win TV
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016

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