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December 2020
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0365-20 IAG Insurance
This television advertisement shows a woman asleep at the wheel of a vehicle and her children asleep in the back seat as the vehicle drives them home autonomously.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
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
0367-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement shows scene of three siblings being late to their parents anniversary and their attempts to get there.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0368-20 ZURU Inc.
This television advertisement for a robotic fish depicts children placing the fish into a glass coffee percolator jug, and a man seeing the fish in the jug.
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0370-20 AVIS
This television advertisement features a woman walking though a jungle. She then walks into a bathroom with a man singing in the shower. The ad closes with the woman passing the man a towel as he steps out of the shower and is shown from behind.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0371-20 Ubisoft
This television advertisement is for the video game Assassins Creed Valhalla.
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0373-20 IKEA Australia
This television advertisement features various people walking through a field and turning on lights hanging from trees and lamps on tables.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
0378-20 Coles
This television advertisement features Curtis Stone advertising Christmas pork meals. It features him holding a roast pork, carving a roast pork and images of people celebrating Christmas. There is also vision of farms and farmers.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 16/12/2020
January 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0003-21 Love Honey
This television advertisement features a voice-over stating: "Ever imagined what a female climax feels like? Stop imagining. Meet the Arcwave Ion, available at Lovehoney."
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0005-21 Medex Australia Pty Ltd
This television advertisement features a man speaking about the product.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0008-21 Australia Post
This television advertisement has a 30second and 60second version and features a cockatoo being destructive to a family’s outdoor Christmas tree. A young girl has decorations delivered, and then uses a ladder to place a box with decorations in a tree for the cockatoo.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0384-20 BCF
This television advertisement depicts groups of men, women and children engaged in various outdoor activities. One scene shows a man appearing to eat a bat as part of a sandwich. The characters sing a jingle that highlights the sense of joy that comes from participating in these activities in Australia.
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0386-20 Optus Communications
This television advertisement features a woman looking out a window speaking into a phone. A group of children can be seen across the road attempting to retrieve a frisbee from a roof with a makeshift pole and hook. The woman continues to give directions over the phone. They eventually knock the frisbee off the roof.
Dismissed Mobile Phone or SMS TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
0389-20 Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
This television advertisement opens with an aerial scene in which the GR Yaris (Vehicle) is being driven. The vehicle specifications are shown alongside dust, which is kicked up from the Vehicle as it drives in circles. The focus then changes to the driver of the Vehicle who is shown in full racing livery, including helmet. The Vehicle is then shown driving down a dirt road in the country and turns onto a bitumen road.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 20/01/2021
February 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0009-21 MTV
This television advertisement features a series of flashing images including a dildo in conjunction with a song.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
0011-21 Meat & Livestock Australia Ltd
This television advertisement open on a wide shot of Australian farmland and bush. A large concrete wall stretches out of sight across the landscape. A man is seen walking home with his shopping, along the wall. A small hole in the wall captures his attention and a grilled lamb cutlet offered by an anonymous hand through the hole in the wall, inviting the man to take a bite. The man, flanked by a security guard watching over the wall, takes an excited bite of the lamb cutlet.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
0014-21 Victorian Department of Health and Human Services
There are four versions of this television advertisement which feature a scene of a man fishing in the background at the start of the advertisement.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
0016-21 Hyundai Motor Company Australia Pty Ltd
This television advertisement features a family getting into a vehicle. The children are fighting until they start to drive, and then they begin to sing.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
0021-21 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
This television advertisement is for the Volkswagen Amarok. The Advertisement depicts a man driving his Ute and taking his driving cues from a bobblehead toy dog, sitting on his dash, nodding its head. As the driver is presented with different off-road environments, the bobblehead toy dog nods him on with approval. The Advertisement ends with, “Say Yeah! To the most powerful ute in its class”.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
0022-21 Audi Australia
This television advertisement is for the Audi Etron. It features a man and his dog imagining the vehicle in different scenarios.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/02/2021
February 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0036-21 KIA Automotive Australia
This television advertisement features three vehicles driving together and all performing a J turn simultaneously.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/02/2021
0026-21 WW Australia & New Zealand
This advertisement features a mix of members discussing their favourite features in the app. One is exercising in a living room, one is seen making dinner for two young boys, one is seen using the app from bed with her baby resting on her chest before cutting to a shot of her holding her baby in the air, and one is seen enjoying dinner with friends.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 24/02/2021
0028-21 Yum Restaurants International
This television advertisement depicts a woman dancing in her living room when she is interrupted by her daugher, daughter's friends and her husband.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 24/02/2021
0029-21 Reckitt Benckiser
This television advertisement depicts a woman in a yellow artistic room who stands up from a couch as music plays, and walks down stair steps with glitching effects on her walking, before she ingests a tablet and is able to dance free of the bodily glitches.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 24/02/2021
0030-21 Karcher Australia
The advertisement shows various people using a Karcher high pressure washer to clean. This includes a man cleaning his car, a lady cleaning a bench / graffiti wall, a different man cleaning his pavers in the yard and a girl also cleaning those pavers whilst riding on a skateboard.
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 24/02/2021
0032-21 Station Innovation
This television advertisement features a man on a cattle property installing the product. A voice over speaks about the benefits of the product.
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 24/02/2021
0038-21 Brand Developers
This television advertisement is for magnetic eyelashes.
Dismissed Beauty Salon TV - Free to Air 24/02/2021
March 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0041-21 Expedia Group
This television advertisement depicts a swimming pool outside a house that is not fenced. Following scenes show a family (adults and children) indoors, before the go outside past the pool to the beach.
Dismissed Tourist Attractions TV - Free to Air 10/03/2021
0047-21 KIA Automotive Australia
This television advertisement features a tennis court, with a large screen being shown and a 3D car being assembled on the court. The car takes on a solid quality when assembled, and both the on-screen car and on-court car perform a burnout.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/03/2021
0048-21 KIA Automotive Australia
This television advertisement depicts a vehicle being driven at night, in the rain, on a racetrack.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/03/2021
0050-21 Specsavers
This television advertisement depicts people plying beach volleyball, and it shows a player jumping up and hitting a live bird, thinking it was the ball.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 10/03/2021
0044-21 Volvo Car Australia
This television advertisement features various scenes of parents taking care of children, running around after them etc. The advertisement then shows a woman driving a car. She looks tired and seems to begin to fall asleep. The car is shown to edge towards the oncoming lane. The vehicle engages Lane Keeping Aid and automatically corrects itself back into her lane, avoiding an oncoming truck. The woman wakes up. Text on screen states "The car that looks after you, like you look after others".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/03/2021
March 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0058-21 Kellogg (Aust.) Pty Ltd
This television advertisement is for Pringles and features a group of friends sitting around a couch.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/03/2021
0059-21 Binge
This television advertisement features footage from the show 'The Walking Dead'.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/03/2021
0060-21 The Walt Disney Company
This television advertisement is promoting the Disney Plus subscription service and features two zombie-like characters.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/03/2021
0066-21 Yum Restaurants International
This television advertisement features a woman standing with a man who is presumably her date. The woman sees a friend and goes to introduce her date, however pauses as she has forgotten his name. The woman asks, "Did someone say KFC?" And the two women are then seen eating KFC.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 24/03/2021
April 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0052-21 Primo Foods
This television advertisement features children in football uniforms with one girl rapping about the 'stackers' product. She continues rapping in the back of the car with two other children. One of the children is seen to hold a large stack of biscuits, cheese and meat.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
0072-21 Primo Foods
This television advertisement is a beach sene with a young girl offering the product to beachgoers as she sings a song. The line “Australia’s favourite bacon” is said in unison by everyone on the beach, while the shot zooms out to depict the crowd of people in the shape of Australia.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
0073-21 IAG Insurance
This television advertisement features children discovering that trees have been marked for removal. The children put up signs to raise awareness that the trees are also the koala’s home. The advertisement ends with the trees no longer marked for removal.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
0075-21 SA Police
This television advertisement follows a young man leaving a pub and driving home. On the way he passes a booze bus, a vulnerable road user, an ambulance and a crash site. We hear his self reflective internal monologue as he drives, ending with the realization that he is a 'selfish prick'.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
0078-21 Reckitt Benckiser
This television advertisement for Finish dishwashing features a comparison between hand washing dishes and dishwashers.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
0080-21 Entain Group Pty Ltd
The name 'Mike Iceberg appears on a TV screen as his name is announced. A marching band enters the room with people firing confetti cannons and mascots climbing onto desks. A man (Mark Wahlberg) riding a red motorcycle decorated as a horse exclaims "I am here to show you all how to Ladbroke it". An office employee goes to take a drink of water and Mike Iceberg knocks it out of his hand. He then provides examples of how to Ladbroke things.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
0081-21 Sportsbet
This television advertisement features a satirical portrayal of cup carrying as though it was an Olympic sport.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
0089-21 Aussie Broadband
There are multiple versions of this television advertisement showing people in their gardens using a hose. The words 'freaking' and 'bloody' are used.
Dismissed Information Technology TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
0077-21 Sportsbet
There are two versions of this television advertisement featuring animated images promoting wagering on the NRL and AFL.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 14/04/2021
April 2021
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0083-21 Suzuki Australia Pty Limited
This television advertisement features a man riding a car like it is a motorcycle.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 28/04/2021
0085-21 Sojo Pty Ltd
This television advertisement features Nick Cummings and Danielle Scott wearing underwear. Danielle dances and it is shown that Nick is using a leafblower to add wind. They switch and Nick stands in a Superman pose as Danielle uses the leafblower.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 28/04/2021
0086-21 Bupa
This television advertisement features two children on a trampoline.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 28/04/2021
0094-21 Entain Group Pty Ltd
This television advertisement depicts two men singing the song ‘The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 28/04/2021
0095-21 Subaru (Aust) Pty Ltd
The advertisement begins with a father giving his son a car in the 1980's. The advertisement follows several groups of people, moving through time and showing different models of cars.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 28/04/2021

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