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October 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0325-19 Seafolly
This television advertisement depicts various women in swimwear, mowing the lawn, walking dogs, playing in the pool.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 09/10/2019
0326-19 NEDS
This television advertisement depicts a jockey on horseback, five greyhounds and a V8 Supercar racing each other on an urban street.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 09/10/2019
0327-19 Road Safety Advisory Council
This advertisement depicts various men telling a story. The advertisement ends with various men talking to a person in the car who wants to drive home. The final text on screen states "Real mates don't let mates drink drive".
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 09/10/2019
0328-19 Pretty Little Thing
This television advertisement is for a clothing company and depicts "Saweetie".
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 09/10/2019
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
0330-19 Sydney Water
This advertisement shows a man training in the gym and bragging to his trainer that he’s saving water by not doing his washing and that we are in drought and we all have to do our bit.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 09/10/2019
September 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
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
October 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0334-19 Universal Pictures
This television advertisement has two versions which contain scenes from the film Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 23/10/2019
0336-19 Best and Less
This television advertisement depicts women and girls of various ages walking onto a stage, dancing, twirling and jumping as they showcase the new range of Best&Less floral dresses.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 23/10/2019
0337-19 13cabs
This television advertisement features a man wearing lycra walking into his garage and putting on a helmet. He sighs and readjusts his shorts. He then takes off his helmet and walks back into the house. The words '13cabs, official travel partner of CBF'd' appear on screen.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 23/10/2019
0339-19 13cabs
This television advertisement features various people receiving suggestive text messages and calls. The words '13cabs official travel partner of the Booty Call' appear on screen.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 23/10/2019
0342-19 PharmaCare
This television advertisement depicts a woman (Liesel Jones) speaking to the camera about starting Fatblaster.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 23/10/2019
0354-19 Pretty Little Thing
This television advertisement features a woman modelling swimwear in the desert.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 23/10/2019
November 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0341-19 Racing NSW
This television advertisement is promoting the Everest race day.
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
0360-19 News Corp
This television advertisement presents a series of news scenes: imagery, headlines and graphics from The Australian newspaper’s coverage. The subject of complaint is an image with a cartoon hand "giving the finger".
Dismissed Media TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
0361-19 Alice Hospitality Supplies Pty Ltd
This television advertisement depicts two chefs in a kitchen making sauce, each getting progressively bigger dishes as they appear to challenge each other, until a woman walks past outside and gives them a look with her hand on her hip.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
0362-19 Carlton United Brewery
This television advertisement features the claim that in 2020 VB will be brewed with 100% solar.
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
0363-19 Coles
This television advertisement for Coles Insurance depicts a male and female in the kitchen. The male tastes hot sauce and reacts by throwing a towel across the kitchen and starting a fire.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
0365-19 Target Australia Pty Ltd
This television advertisement features still images of female and male children wearing plain t-shirts or long-sleeved shirts smiling and laughing at the start and end, and runs through logos of four of the brands included in the offer in the middle; LEGO, NERF, VTech and PJ Masks.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
0372-19 TATA Global Beverages
This television advertisement for Tetley Cold Infusions features a model and comedian Celia Pacquola.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
0350-19 Yum Restaurants International
The advertisement is set in the evening and depicts three women waiting at the front of a queue to get into a venue. They are refused entry and a smaller group of people behind them are let in instead. The women start complaining to the venue’s bouncer. Suddenly, one of the women spots a large billboard depicting a KFC $4.95 Fill Up deal. The woman who spots the billboard then exclaims “shut up and take my money!”. The scene cuts to the three women in a car, driving slowly past the venue whilst enjoying KFC with abandon. The bouncer and those in the queue look at them as they pass by.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
0322-19 Universal Pictures
This television advertisement contains scenes from the film "Good Boys".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 13/11/2019
November 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0373-19 Roadshow Films
This television advertisement features scenes from the film "Hustlers".
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 27/11/2019
0389-19 Origin Energy
This television advertisement features different Australians dancing and includes children cartwheeling, an elderly woman dancing with her dog, friends running and men on a construction site dancing with tools.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 27/11/2019
December 2019
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0391-19 Smart Homes for Living
This television advertisement talks about different 'kinds of smarts' being valued. It shows a man working late while a woman holds a baby, a woman crying to a female friend, a man cutting wood in a garage, a woman doing yoga, two women cooking together, a woman sewing, and a couple sitting with a sales rep with the father holding the baby.
Dismissed Real Estate TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
0392-19 Chemist Warehouse
This television advertisement features characters from Ariana Grande's music video "ThankU, Next". One scene depicts a cheerleader pushing another cheerleader.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
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
0399-19 Dept Justice & Community Safety - Victoria
This television advertisement portrays firefighters and bushfire survivors gathered in a community centre in rural Victoria reflecting on their shared experience. It includes flash back scenes of three fictionalised stories including a memory of a firefighter helping children escape through a fence; a woman and her partner trying to escape via a car; a family making the heartbreaking decision to leave without their pet.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
0404-19 Kennards Hire
This television advertisement depicts a man who appears to be in a therspists office talking about how he couldn't reach a spot he needed to paint. The therapist, who is wearing Kennards Hire clothing, suggests equipment to assist.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
0407-19 Coca-Cola South Pacific
This television advertisement features the search of a dog, Bobby, for his own name. It depicts Bobby the dog passing a number of young adults with Share a Coke bottles with various names, until he finally finds his own name “Bobby” on a Coca-Cola billboard.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
0411-19 Channel Nine St Vincent de Paul Bushfire Appeal
This television advertisement was a promotion for the St Vincent de Paul bushfire appeal. It included news footage of a koala being rescued after mistakenly attempting to return to an area of bushland that was on fire. A volunteer was then shown rescuing the koala and administering aid in the form of dousing it with water and sheltering it with her own shirt. Further footage included vision of bushland totally engulfed in flames and vision of firefighters responding to blaze in a residential area.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
0415-19 Woolworths Group Limited
This television advertisement highlights five Australian farms which grow produce for Woolworths.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
0419-19 Sexpo
This television advertisement featuring well-known TV chef Ian Hewitson (Huey) presents as a TV show called "Cooking with Huey" in which he begins speaking about an event called "Mexpo". Halfway through he is inturrupted by a man who advises him that the event is "Sexpo" and the camera pans to three women in aprons who wave to Huey. The advertisement ends with Huey stating "Well, I guess it's still pretty spicy" and his eye twinkling.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 11/12/2019
January 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
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
0003-20 McDonald's Australia Limited
This television dvertisement shows various different people waking up after a big night. In the final scene, one of the people is answering the door to a McDonald’s food delivery. End frame shows the McDelivery and Uber Eats logo.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0004-20 AHM Health Insurance
This television advertisement features former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds in a television studio filming an advertisement. When a prop behind him falls a television production assistant goes to pick it up and Andrew Symonds knocks him over with his shoulder.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Insurance TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0006-20 McDonald's Australia Limited
This television advertisement shows a truck driver and his dog on a journey together, passing several McDonald’s restaurants along the way. The dog barks to the truck driver each time they pass a McDonald’s restaurant, before the truck driver pulls into a McDonald’s restaurant to be greeted by their family.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
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
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
0023-20 Mitchell's Quality Foods
Series of TV commercials promoting the Lite n' Easy Jump Start weight loss program. It features multiple Lite n' Easy testimonials who have lost weight using Lite n' Easy.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0024-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement features a man parking his car next to rubbish waiting to be collected before walking into a dealership to buy a new one.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0027-20 Weeks Building Group
This television advertisement features a couple in a taxi at night. As the taxi meter gets higher, the man becomes agitated. He requests that the taxi driver stop and let the couple out, and then the woman is shown walking ahead of him on a footpath. The advertisement cuts to scenes of a new home.
Dismissed Professional Service TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0031-20 Naughty Boy
This television advertisement is cartoon styled and features a man in the following scenes: a board room; a park; a bedroom; at a computer; holding a statement; signing for a package; and in bed with two other people.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0001-20 Yum Restaurants International
This television advertisement features a young woman looking at her reflection in the window of a parked car. She is dressed as though she is going to a festival, turns to check herself out from behind, then leans over and adjusts her breasts. The car window winds down to reveal two preteen boys and an unimpressed mother. The woman says, 'did someone say KFC?'. And is then seen eating KFC with a friend.
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
0032-20 Trivago
This television advertisement features two women at a hotel check-in desk. One woman is older with grey hair, while the other appears to be in her 20s or 30s. The older woman is quoted her price and goes to pay, but as she hands over her card the younger woman is quoted a price that is less than hers. The younger woman explains the benefits of using Trivago to book accommodation.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0046-20 Unilever Australasia
This television advertisement is for Lipton Iced Tea and features close ups of the sun, leaves and fruit, and then various scenes of people around a pool.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0039-20 Ola Cabs
This television advertisement depicts various scenes of people being dropped off and picked up by Ola Cabs.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
0019-20 LTD Rentals
This television advertisement features a group of elderly people being herded towards a bus by a man on a horse with a whip.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Free to Air 22/01/2020
February 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0050-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement features a man driving while listening to the song 'Call Me Maybe' by Carly Rae Jepson.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020

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