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November 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
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
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
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
0055-20 Australian Pork Ltd
This television advertisement depicts a couple on a bus. They discuss doing something, suggesting a quickie, that they could do it that night, on the deck, and suggest inviting the neighbours. The couple get stares from other passengers. The advertisement then switches to a BBQ scene showing the couple cooking pork on the BBQ with their neighbours.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020
0056-20 Uber Australia Pty Ltd
There are 15 versions of this television advertisement which open on a shot of a sports arena, then cuts to a scene involving a tennis player or Magda Szubanski speaking to camera.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020
0057-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement features footage of a Toyota motorsports vehicle driving on a track, interspersed with Toyota vehicles driving on and off roads.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020
0058-20 Dineamic
This television advertisement features a promotion for fresh food delivered.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020
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
0051-20 Ultra Tune Australia
There are two versions of this television advertisement which feature Warwick Capper and Pamela Anderson.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020
0053-20 ANZ Banking Group Ltd
This television advertisement features two men standing over a baby in a bassinet and singing "You make me feel like financing" to the tune of "You make me feel like dancing" by Leo Sayer. The baby is wearing a beanie.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 12/02/2020
February 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0066-20 McDonald's Australia Limited
This television advertisement is promoting a new series of mini games within the mymacca's app. The advertisement shows two adults playing the mymacca's mini games on their phones, where they themselves become the characters in the game.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 26/02/2020
0068-20 Pretty Little Thing
This television advertisement for Pretty Little Thing depicts model Gabby Epstein in various clothing in a beach setting. Scenes include her posing near rocks, sitting in a lifegurard chair, walking along the beach, sitting on the sand, standing on the sand, sitting in a large white chair near the water, and walking with a surfboard.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 26/02/2020
0069-20 Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd
This television advertisement for Domino's pizza contains the phrases: Any large pizza from $15 each; Delivered; No minimum spend; No surprises
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 26/02/2020
March 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0089-20 Beiersdorf Australia Ltd
This television advertisement features scenes of the product and lifestyle scenes including two women on a theme park ride, a woman giving birth, a woman smiling in bed with a man, and a close up of a woman's face.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 11/03/2020
0080-20 McDonald's Australia Limited
This television advertisement has two versions and depicts a little girl undertaking action to remedy her previous bad behaviour. I.e. pulling sticky arrows off pictures of her brothers; removing stickers from dining table; washing a pink dog in the kitchen sink. The advertisement ends with the family at McDonalds, and the little girl stealing one of her brother's chips.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 11/03/2020
March 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0100-20 Sportsbet
This television advertisement features a scene similar to fencing at the Olympics, except the competitors are flicking towels are each other. The competitors are shown to be from China (C.H.Ting) and Australia (V.Rees). The voice over states: JB: Sudden death now in the Towel Flick. JB: Yesssss. The Aussie's got him a beauty. Nick: Look at that wrist action. The bloke's nearly as whipped as Prince Harry. JB: Another make it look easy moment, from Sportsbet.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/03/2020
0103-20 Koala Sleep
This television advertisement depicts a man in a green shirt with question-marks on it sleeping in a bed. A toothbrush is shown on his nightstand. Halfway through the advertisement the camera zooms our to show the whole bed, and a woman and another man are shown kissing. The voiceover states “Say g’day to Koala, Australia’s highest rated mattress brand. It’s got zero-disturbance technology which means you can get a perfect night’s sleep without getting disturbed by your partner, no matter what they get up to, even if they are an absolute cheating pile of trash.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 25/03/2020
0104-20 Prime Video
This television advertisment contains scenes of the TV program 'The Hunters'.
Dismissed Media TV - Free to Air 25/03/2020
0107-20 Naked Tan
This television advertisement depicts a woman in a peach coloured bikini using an ourdoor shower at the beach. Voiceover states "Every 45seconds a woman is having a Naked Tan. Visit Naked Tan website and use code (REF) to receive a 25% discount."
Dismissed Beauty Salon TV - Free to Air 25/03/2020
0108-20 Telstra
This television advertisement depicts a scene of a family in a taxi in traffic. The conversation indicates they are hoping to make it to the airport in time for their flight. The father is shown to have forgotten to download a tv program for the children and is rushing to do so. The advertisement ends with the family travelling up an escalator as the children watch the program on the phone.
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 25/03/2020
0110-20 PharmaCare
This television advertisement depicts three children as a voiceover states "fussy eater" (little girl in pink shirt), "super active" (young boy wearing medal and holding soccer ball), "having a growth spurt" (little boy in green shirt). A woman comes is then depicted stating: "When kids need a vitamin boost they'll love, I trust Kids Smart Vita Gummies. Packing with healthy nutrition to help support healthy growth and development, immunity, thinking brains and strong bones. No matter how fussy they are, kids love Kids Smart Vita Gummies."
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 25/03/2020
0078-20 Universal Pictures
There are two versions of this television advertisement which feature scenes from the film 'The Invisible Man'.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 25/03/2020
April 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0125-20 Youi
This advertisement depicts a close up scene of a South-African man looking directly into the camera, and who is introduced as Lovemore. The viewer is invited to make an assumption about the man. The voice-over states that by making assumptions, you don’t see the individual. The advertisement goes on to describe the man, who is shadow-boxing, as a former boxer and world-title winner, who is now a lawyer, and who is passionate about fighting for justice and his two grandkids. The voiceover states that at Youi, we don’t make assumptions; we listen. Our insurance is for individuals.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 08/04/2020
0128-20 GMHBA
The television advertisement depicts two boys in a backyard hideout after school. The boys are discussing how much money they will get from the "Tooth Fairy" for their recently lost baby teeth. One boy says he receives $1 while the other receives $2. The boys share a look. The next sceen depicts the second boy putting an extra tooth under his pillow, and then the scene shows him giving the first boy money in the hideout. The boy then start wiggling their teeth. One boy asks if the big ones are worth more.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 08/04/2020
0130-20 Yum Restaurants International
This television advertisement opens on a close up image of a smiling boy who says “I love you.” He immediately looks a little nervous. There is an awkward silence until a girl says “Thank you.”. The scene then shows that the two of them are in bed together. There is another beat of awkward silence and the boy looks away and says “Did someone say KFC.” The scene changes to the boy eating KFC with two other boys in a living room.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/04/2020
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

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