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February 2000
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23-00 Womans Room (The)
Womans Room (The) - De jour tampons
Dismissed Health Products 08/02/2000
June 2011
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0177-11 Queensland Association for Health Communities
In the top left hand corner of the poster is a picutre of a red condom in a wrapper with the words "Rip & Roll" and underneath in smaller writing it reads, "A safe sex message from Health Communitues. 1800 155 141 qahc.org.au." The main part of the poster is a large image of two men: one man is embracing the other man from behind whilst holding a red condom wrapper in his right hand.
Dismissed Health Products Poster 08/06/2011
0176-11 Queensland Association for Health Communities
The words "Rip & Roll" are written in large letters across the centre of the Billboard. Underneath in smaller writing it reads, "A safe sex message from Health Communitues. 1800 155 141 qahc.org.au." To the left is a large image of a red condom in its wrapper, and to the right is a large image of two men: one man is embracing the other man from behind whilst holding a red condom wrapper in his right hand.
Dismissed Health Products Billboard 08/06/2011
November 2001
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297-01 Naturopathica
Naturopathica - Horny Goat Weed - Devil horns on 'H' of large-type headline reading 'Get Horny' - man and woman in sexual position
Dismissed Health Products Outdoor 13/11/2001
May 2003
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126-03 Boehringer Ingelheim Pty Limited
Boehringer Ingelheim - Mobic - woman on bicycle not wearing helmet.
Dismissed Health Products Print 13/05/2003
June 2007
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158-07 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
GlaxoSmithKline - Nicabate - monster-like creatures with cartoon brains
Dismissed Health Products 12/06/2007
January 2008
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438-07 Procter & Gamble Australia Pty Ltd
Procter & Gamble - Metamucil - mother puts powder in food rather than kids eating fresh vegetables for fibre
Dismissed Health Products 16/01/2008
June 2003
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183-03 Advanced Medical Institute
AMI - 'Restore your sex life'.
Dismissed Health Products Outdoor 10/06/2003
August 1999
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253-99 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Glaxo Wellcome - influenza awareness campaign - virago
Dismissed Health Products 10/08/1999
251-99 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Glaxo Wellcome - Influenza (Print)
Dismissed Health Products Print 10/08/1999
December 2014
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0513-14 Advanced Medical Institute
"do you want longing lasting sex" "Do you want to make her moan?"
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Health Products Radio 10/12/2014
July 2009
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291-09 Plant Health Pty Ltd
Planet Health (291/09)Print - Life Stream Bowel Biotecs+ bowel cleansing supplement
Dismissed Health Products Print 08/07/2009
July 2004
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156-04 Orchard Manufacturing Co Pty ltd
Orchard Manufacturing - Nulax - people dancing out of toilets-women with knickers at knees, men shown at crotch level, zipping up with dunny in background
Dismissed Health Products 13/07/2004
August 2009
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343-09 Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers - TV (343/09) fingers superglued to keyboard
Dismissed Health Products 12/08/2009
October 2009
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385-09 Enhance Plastic Surgery
Enhance Plastic Surgery - (385/09)Print photos of uncovered breasts in free unrestricted magazine
Dismissed Health Products Print 14/10/2009
May 2004
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110-04 Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd
Pfizer - Nicorette - "Nip & Tuck" woman at party jealous of another's looks, starts speculating why "What will she give up next? Liposuction?"
Dismissed Health Products 11/05/2004
111-04 Procter & Gamble Australia Pty Ltd
Procter & Gamble - Metamucil - man eats soap, woman eats face washer, woman sticks hose in mouth - let natural fibres clean your insides out
Dismissed Health Products 11/05/2004
March 2019
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0056-19 Medibank Private Ltd
Channel 7 went to an adbreak from the news and immediately went to a Medibank Health Update which contained a reporter and an interviewee. A Channel 7 lower thirds chryon came up explaining upcoming news stories. It stayed on for a large duration of this advertorial. After it finished and the Channel 7 information went away a Medibank insurance ad came on as part of the normal ad break.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Health Products TV - Free to Air 06/03/2019
May 2008
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179-08 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
Reckitt Benckiser - Nurofen for children - flying babies
Dismissed Health Products 19/05/2008
June 2006
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185-06 Novartis Consumer Health A/asia Pty Ltd
Novartis Consumer Health - Benefiber - very skinny young female model demonstrates how easy it is to take fibre - struts and bends over to display skinny rear
Dismissed Health Products 13/06/2006
March 2002
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64-02 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
GlaxoSmithKline - NicabateCQ- cricketers watching local game, one giving up smoking and showing a patch on his arm. When his turn comes, he grabs a groin protector and says "You can never have enough protection"
Dismissed Health Products 12/03/2002
August 2007
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247-07 Johnson & Johnson Pacific Pty Ltd
Johnson & Johnson - Nicorette (Radio) - "Quitting is hard, just cut smoking down a little with gum" - driver of golf cart to another
Dismissed Health Products Radio 14/08/2007
January 2018
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0570-17 VIMN
Showing drastic body image type on a channel with a huge teen demographic, completely irresponsible to impressionable teenagers showing a woman amd guy who work out excessively. With so much pressure already on kids to look ‘perfect’ this promotes a distorted vue of what is ‘healthy’ shame on MTV and Chemist Warehouse for producing and airing such damaging material to young impressionable minds
Dismissed Health Products TV - Pay 24/01/2018
July 2015
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0269-15 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Panadol
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0265-15 Mitchell's Quality Foods
And I quote "being thinner and healthier makes you a better mother".
Dismissed Slimming TV - Pay 08/07/2015
June 2000
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164-00 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Glaxo Wellcome - Zantac Relief - 'Down, boy'
Dismissed Health Products 13/06/2000
August 2013
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0293-13 Sanofi Aventis
Male drinking a concoction of milk/vegetation from a boot.
Dismissed Health Products 28/08/2013
August 2015
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0300-15 WA AIDS Council
Advertisement by Project X on Page 6 of the Perth Voice local newspaper (delivered free to all homes, circulation 31,000). The Advert promotes two information forums:1) Better Head and Orgasms2) A** Classincluding health rectum, anal sex, douching, giving and getting what most men dream of.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Health Products Print 12/08/2015
April 2012
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0153-12 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
A mum talks about how she wants her children to be healthy, happy and safe and so she used ‘Nurofen for children’ for her daughter's fever. We then see the mum holding her baby who is wearing a teething bead necklace.
Dismissed Health Products 24/04/2012
September 2019
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0312-19 LifeStyles Healthcare
Skyn Lubricant - This TV on demand advertisement depicts various individuals’ hands caressing flowers, while the voice overs describe what they are looking for from their partners regarding their intimacy.
Dismissed Health Products TV - On Demand 25/09/2019
June 2016
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0247-16 GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Australia
This advertisement shows a large shaggy dog running into the family house leaving footprints and dirt on the floors. The father in the family drags the dog along the floor by its forearms and into the bathroom for a wash. Consequently the man ends up with muscle soreness.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
December 2020
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0362-20 Laser Clinics Australia
This advertisement appeared on the Spotify app. There are several versions with different layout, however all contain an image of a woman's midsection. She is wearing a white crop tops and pants and is grasping her skin. The accompanying text states "Freeze away the bits that won't budge".
Dismissed Slimming App 16/12/2020
March 2017
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0084-17 Weight Watchers
A collage of different people and scenarios. In one scene a woman chops some food and flicks it into a bowl with a large knife. The bowl is being held by a child.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 08/03/2017
October 2006
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372-06 Jenny Craig Weight Loss Centres Pty Ltd
Jenny Craig - woman tells us friends say she's not fat but wants to lose some weight so she joined JC - lost 7kg in 8 weeks
Dismissed Slimming 10/10/2006
August 2020
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0231-20 One to One Diet
This television advertisement features an animated woman standing on a stage singing into a microphone about a new diet.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 12/08/2020
March 2016
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0058-16 Pharmacare Laboratories
Various pack shots of the 'Skinny' weight loss products with clips of skinny/very slim women dancing around (some of whom are sipping drinks from a straw) and male voices in the background singing 'I love em, I love em, I love em... skinny' repeated over and over.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 09/03/2016
0066-16 Pharmacare Laboratories
Advertising a range of dieting supplements called Skinny from Slim Right - sold by Woolworths
Dismissed Slimming TV - Pay 09/03/2016
November 1998
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203-98 Gloria Marshall Australia
Gloria Marshall Australia - Young woman with her Mother.
Dismissed Slimming 10/11/1998
211-98 Gloria Marshall Australia
Gloria Marshall Australia - "Start re-shaping your love life"
Dismissed Slimming 10/11/1998
March 2010
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86-10 Pharmacare Laboratories
Pharmacare - Fat Blaster (86/10) TV. Womens torso to mid thigh in bikini bottons photoshopped to be even thinner
Dismissed Slimming 10/03/2010
August 2019
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0253-19 Cosmetique
This radio advertisement features the voiceover “1, 2, skip a few, 99, 100. If you like taking shortcuts you might be interested in liposuction by Cosmetique, Australia’s leading cosmetic surgery clinic. Liposuction removes fat form various parts of the body including the tummy, hips, thighs, knees, ankles, upper arms and neck. Prices start from $1800. To book a consultation at your nearest Cosmetique clinic go to australiancosmetic.com”
Dismissed Slimming Radio 21/08/2019
April 1999
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88-99 Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers - "Woman smashing scales"
Dismissed Slimming 13/04/1999
July 2020
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0163-20 Opti-Pharm Pty Ltd
This television advertisement opens with a black screen and the words “Studies show that being overweight can impair your immune system” followed by a montage of images.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 08/07/2020
September 2008
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326-08 Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers - woman wearing pink lacy underpants with jeans around her thighs on ebay website "feel bullied by your clothes?"
Dismissed Slimming Internet 16/09/2008
November 2008
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414-08 Dr Tim's Success
Dr Tim's Success - young woman shown with cartoon bite marks in body - 'eats away your body fat'
Dismissed Slimming 12/11/2008
September 2016
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0373-16 Hypoxi Head Office
Female voice over describes that she needs to lose weight in order to regain her self-confidence and look good in a bridesmaid dress.
Dismissed Slimming Radio 14/09/2016
January 2015
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0563-14 Pharmabrand Labs
Weight loss product, women on a beach talking about losing weight.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 28/01/2015
February 2015
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0025-15 Pharmabrands Labs
Advertisement begins with a healthy sized person scoffing food and a voice over says "are you disgusted with how much weight you've put on over the holiday season". It follows with some pictures of people eating food and the voice over says "do you wish you'd stop stop stopped". The advertisement then introduces Rapid Loss as a means of weight loss.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Pay 11/02/2015
November 2019
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0358-19 WeightLoss Solutions Australia
This radio advertisement features the a woman stating "I've never been on a date but a friend, he's just invited me to drinks".
Dismissed Slimming Radio 13/11/2019
October 2020
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0288-20 Chemist Warehouse
This television advertisement for Optifast features various scenes of a woman interspersed with a spokesman
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 07/10/2020

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