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April 2015
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0143-15 Australian Super
An elderly couple, the NAKED male in the shower, his silhouette viewed through a frosted glass screen, then he grabs his clothed wife and pulls her into the shower, on the provision of cutting costs, but it comes across that this old couple are going to have sex in the shower.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 29/04/2015
December 2015
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0478-15 Cancer Institute of NSW
Without any warning, vision of an autopsy on the body of a smoker is shown.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 09/12/2015
November 2014
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0496-14 Best & Less
Mum dancing and trying on underwear in a change room. Child opens curtain and mum is embarrassed. Woman is seen completely in her underwear.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
June 2019
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0160-19 Suzuki Australia Pty Limited
Advertisement for Suzuki with the slogan ‘for fun’s sake’. The ad features a car careering through water and mud, and circling a suburban roundabout. The ad begins by talking about driverless vehicles.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
November 2016
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0500-16 Marshall Batteries
Husband and pregnant wife stagger down steps and get into car, attempt to start the car to head to hospital, however car does not start. They call Marshal Battery replacement.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
December 2016
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0509-16 Enably.com.au
The advertisement shows a man standing in a hallway with a ladder and a cat that he promised a banking authority he would teach to change a light bulb.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 07/12/2016
November 2018
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0514-18 BizCover
This ad shows a dirty and neglected foot with severely overgrown pixelated toenails which are in the  process of being clipped. The intended message being rather than watching something like this one should go to Bizcover's website and make us of their products.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 28/11/2018
December 2017
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0529-17 AAMI
A girl with a foot injury goes to a Chinese Accupuncturist. She then kicks him in the face when he inserts a needle. He falls to the floor.This is false these neeedles do not hurt.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 06/12/2017
April 2018
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0182-18 Universal Pictures
Advertising the new cinema release called 'Blockers'
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/04/2018
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
July 2019
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0204-19 Lexus Australia
A black Lexus is seen being driven through a carpark, starting with a four wheel drift, then accelerating as it exits, without the driver slowing or stopping to see if there are any pedestrians (as is required when exiting private property onto a public road) then becoming airborne as it exits the carpark and bouncing as it hits the road, then another four wheel drift.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
August 2019
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0240-19 Hotels Combined
The Panel noted the television advertisement features a woman walking into a room asking “have you been up all night?” A man whispers, “I’m looking for hotel deals”. He moves from behind the lounge off screen as the woman asks, “why didn’t you just go to Hotel’s Combined?” The man is seen hanging from the ceiling and he repeats “Hotels combined”.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 07/08/2019
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
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
June 2017
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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
June 2016
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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
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
January 2020
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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
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 2014
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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
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
November 2020
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0349-20 Beachport Caravan Park
This television advertisement begins with a scene of a person's bare feet on the dashboard of a car as it drives into town.Further scenes shows attractions of the town and the facilities of the advertised caravan park.
Dismissed Tourist Attractions TV - Free to Air 25/11/2020
0345-20 Ford Australia
This television advertisement depicts two Ford vehicles: (1) a delivery driver parking a Ford Transit Custom in front of a business’ gate in order to deliver a package; and (2) a construction worker parking their Ford Ranger at a construction site and putting on their work boots.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 25/11/2020
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
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
September 2019
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0269-19 Craveable Brands
This television advertisement depicts a young woman and an older woman who appear to be in a retirement home playing a board game. The older woman is taking her time at her turn and when the scene cuts to the young woman's chair she is gone. The next scene shows her eating chips at Red Rooster.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 11/09/2019
May 2016
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0227-16 Smith's Snackfood Co Ltd The
Doritos-Commercial
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 25/05/2016
February 2020
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0061-20 Campbell Arnott's
This television advertisement depicts Scott Cam in a kitchen talking about Savoy/Jatz crackers. The advertisement then cuts to a brief scene that appears to be announcing that the tennis is back, before Scott Cam walks on screen and talks to the voiceover.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020
April 2020
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0114-20 Kayo Sports
This television advertisement has two versions and features people watching their phones when two football players engage in a tackle near them.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 08/04/2020
July 2015
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0270-15 Aldi Australia
The Aldi advert of a man in a chicken suit falling off a chair and using offensive language (taking Jesus Christ name in vain).
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
September 2020
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0276-20 Ford Australia
This television advertisement for a Ford Ranger features a man with his vehicle stuck in a body of water, watching a Ford drive through the water easily.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/09/2020
June 2017
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0278-17 Paramount Pictures Australia
The ad is for the film Baywatch
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 21/06/2017

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