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E.g., 18/08/2022
October 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0430-16 Stan
Whilst watching Yu-Gi-Oh (rated PG) with my children this afternoon I was very unhappy to see an advert for Stan being played.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
0432-16 Comparethemarket.com.au
This is an add that depicts the meerkat character directing a man in the making of an ad for "Compare the Market"
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
0433-16 Sportsbet
The ad is the Sportsbet TV ad that ends with the men standing at a roadside looking at a women in a caravan/tent, saying you don't get to choose the after party or something to that affect. 
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
0434-16 BCF
BCF.......ING fun
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
0435-16 NSW Rural Fire Service
Screen is dark with slow moving footage of flames. Threatening voiceover says that "I am fire" and can send embers far into the distance. Fire says "I know *exactly* where your weak spots are". "You think the fire truck will save you? Do the maths: there will never be as many fire trucks as houses." Woman's voice comes on, encouraging people to make a fire plan.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
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
0439-16 Sir Walter Premium Lawn Turf
The advertisement depicts a get together of friends celebrating the renovation of a lawn and backyard. The attendees are enjoying the barbecue until one guest grasp a handful of grass and starts throwing the grass while screaming in the hosts face that it is not Sir Walter Buffalo Grass. With this abuse all the party goers run screaming from the home. It shows that after a 6 month period and the homeowner replacing the lawn and the abusive guest supervising the installation.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
0442-16 iSelect Pty Ltd
Man gets bitten by a cobra snake and dies
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 26/10/2016
November 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0431-15 St George Group
I am writing in regards to the St George commercial in which a young boy, approx age 8-9 is seen doing board flips on his skateboard. His sister is sitting nearby watching him.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
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
0435-15 Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses
The advertisement is a grotesque and completely false compilation of horses designed to impede the legitimate enjoyment of the spring racing carnival.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0438-15 Bingle Insurance
Car insurance ad with a man ordering car insurance on a mobile phone while riding two singing horses - then in closing scene the driver is in the car with the two fantasy horses galloping alongside a car
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0439-15 World Vision Australia
I have two young children watching cartoons on GO when this advertisement about an 8 year old girl who is raped and is forced to marry old men.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0440-15 Super Cheap Auto Pty Ltd
Ad depicts 4 vehicles doing burn outs and crossing each other in a figure 8 pattern. They cross in front of a SuperCheap semi trailer and it is shown to swerve and almost roll
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0443-15 Live Lighter
This is a NT Government campaign to explain the dangers of sugary, carbonated drinks.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0446-15 Beiersdorf Aust Ltd
The ad was for skin cream by Nivea Visage
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0449-15 Sportsbet
This ad shows a gambler at the races with what appears to be a very nasty case of sunburn beneath where binoculars would have been. It includes the comment "Don't worry it's only second degree".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0450-15 Global Shop Direct
Hello, today I was watching channel 10 (I think) in the morning and there was a disturbing ad for a laughing ball (a dog toy). The ball makes the sound of a human baby/toddler when it's bitten.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0451-15 Golden Circle Ltd
A male adult with a child and the male slices a pineapple depicting the juice content. The impression is that these two are Australians cutting an Australian pineapple.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
October 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0431-17 Underworks
I don't think we need to see a beautiful young girl dancing in underwear, performing acrobatic moves, her legs wide open in several positions. The females underwear is more revealing than the males and the male ad is not always with the female ad.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 11/10/2017
0434-17 Seqirus
An older lady talking to the screen about shingles symptoms. Then it goes to a screen of text then back to her to talk again this time with a red rash around her right eye and puss filled sores on her forehead. Then it goes back to a screen of text with a voice over of facts then back to her. This time her face is swollen and red her right eye is barely open she looks very beaten with a bloody mess on her face.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 11/10/2017
0437-17 Vitasoy Australia Products Pty Ltd
The voiceover says "Milk, Milk, Milk, Milk, Milk, Milk, Milk, Milk" and the screen pans between fields of wheat, grains, etc, and then they display an Oat liquid product, and a Soy liquid product, that they claim is milk.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 11/10/2017
0439-17 Parfums Christian Dior
Young lady, Natalie Portman frollicking around various locations in beautiful dresses.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 11/10/2017
0443-17 Sony Pictures Releasing Pty Ltd
Movie trailer for Flatliners
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 11/10/2017
0446-17 Crownbet
The advert focuses on the benefits of the reward program.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 11/10/2017
October 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0431-18 Sportsbet
Interruption of a process - in particular, trimming bonsai, resulting in the destruction of the item being worked on, implying that none of these pastimes are as satisfying or valuable as a sportsbet multi. 
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0432-18 Sportsbet
Interruption of a process - in particular, turning a clay pot, resulting in the destruction of the item being worked on, implying that none of these pastimes are as satisfying or valuable as a sportsbet multi. 
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0434-18 Sony Pictures Releasing Pty Ltd
There are graphic scary scenes thrust into our faces- of a monster with long sharp teeth about to devour a person and there is another scene where a person is in agony writhing on the ground. 
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0438-18 Sportsbet
Young man sitting on a car bonnet. Overvoice talking about how his mum paid for the car. Similar theme in other ads targetting young people in their late teens.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0440-18 Inspirations Paint
Woman was cleaning up after husband and he texted her saying he was at the pub and she sent back a smiley face.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0442-18 Domino's Pizza Australia Pty Ltd
It’s an ad for Dominos big New York style pizza that has swearing beeped out at the end. 
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0443-18 ING Direct
Isla Fisher without warning burst the balloons of all non ING customers, which happen to be female and she also proceeds to burst the balloon held by a young female without asking her if she is a customer, she assumes she is. All the people targeted in the add are female. All the men in the ad are ING customers (funny that) and she gives them a balloon (without bursting it).
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
0445-18 SAHMRI
During this advertisement the narrator talks about syphilis and sex. At one point they say “we all like to have sex”.There was also a cartoon of two people being intimate in bed.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 10/10/2018
October 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0432-14 True Value Solar
The television commercial features two males discussing electrical supply; one of the men is Mark Thompson, coach of the Essendon Football Club, who indicates he has installed solar panels as an electricity saving measure. Towards the end of the commercial, he proceeds to lay full length, face down, in an illuminated sun bed watched by the second man. I believe True Value Solar to be a sponsor of the Essendon Football Club.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 22/10/2014
0433-14 Brown Forman Australia
Young men drinking. Spurts of alcohol. Edit's to young woman's face being drenched..
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 22/10/2014
0434-14 Warner Village Theme Parks
Fright Night
Dismissed Tourist Attractions TV - Free to Air 22/10/2014
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 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0436-18 Ubank
This television advertisement features a little girl playing with a doll on the floor as her parents eat dinner with friends. The girl is pretending she is on the phone to the bank about her home loan application, and says the words "You're the fifth *beep* person I've spoken to this week".
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
November 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0443-14 Ladbroke.com.au
group of men "shouting" meals,travel,accomodation on a Ladbrokes card
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
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
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
November 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0446-16 Coca-Cola Amatil
The ad is very geared at being Australian and if people didn't know Mt Franklin was Australian and you drinking pure Australia!!!
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0447-16 Tabcorp
It was an ad about a man who leaves his family to go away for the weekend with friends, but then spends the whole day and night watching sports and using the TAB app on his phone set to the tune of "I Will Always Love You" by Bon Jovi. When he gets back the wife asks, "How was your weekend" and he smiles blissfully and says "great".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
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
0451-16 Shedd
The advertisement shows young, very swim women, in various poses, and clothing simply falling off them, or is inferred to fall off them. Various types of clothing is dictated in this manner, including a bikini top and a very clear crutch Close up that explicitly focuses female genital.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0452-16 Energy Window Fashions
This advertisement features a staring wide-eyed man, talking in a strange fashion, who completes the advertisement by saying 'we may look crazy but ...
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
October 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0446-18 Stan
Advertising upcoming Stan tv show "Escape at Dannemora", adult rating of sexual nature
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
October 2017
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0449-17 Lexus Australia
The ad was to sell cars
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0451-17 Heinz
The advertising begins with a man saying that ketchup is thicker than sauce and that most people do not know that this is because more tomatoes are used in ketchup than in sauce. The advertisement then shows the words 'sauce' and 'ketchup' on a white plate constructed of (presumably) sauce and ketchup respectively. When the plate is held vertically the word 'sauce' runs down the plate but the word 'ketchup' does not.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
November 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0452-15 Sexpo Pty Ltd
Ad for Sexpo aired during the last 15 minutes of The Empire Strikes Back when a large number of children would be watching is inappropriate.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015

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