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June 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0245-15 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
A group of females and one man doing yoga in park. As the group bends over, the man stares at a females bum.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
0247-15 Sexpo Pty Ltd
As for sexpo dates and entertainment to be provided at the event
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
0250-15 Darwin Red Devil Fishing Charters
Fishing charters a shark is being caught and a women is screaming loudly.
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
0251-15 Pacific Brands Holdings Pty Ltd
A tv commercial channel ten for bonds girls underwear.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
0252-15 iSelect Pty Ltd
Don't bury your head in the sand, let iSelect help you choose health insurance.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
0253-15 Fantastic Snacks Australia
Delites chips ad, husband eats some chips, wife decides to lick his lips/face in order to establish what the flavor/taste is.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
0254-15 Jim's Mowing SA
The cartoon version of Jim's Mowing and garden maintenance.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
May 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0245-18 Stan
Joining Stan pay tv
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 23/05/2018
0246-18 Sojo Pty Ltd
Double entendres. Offensive. (Aware you might take it as a given that, given my age, I am an old prude. On the contrary! I am a teacher of adolescent boys and a mother of 6 (4 boys).
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 23/05/2018
0247-18 Crimsafe
An old lady is sitting at home having a cup of tea watching the television when she hears a noise, a voiceover says that "break ins often happen while people are at home" there is more noise and movement and the lady looks frightened. It then talks about how crimsafe products can keep you safe.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 23/05/2018
0254-18 Skoda
Skoda SU adFamily driving around with young daughter (maybe 9 or 10 yo) singing Black Velvet. She transforms from hair tied up to releasing her hair and shaking it around in slow motion to lyrics that include "black velvet in that little boys smile, black in that slow southern style . Black velvet that will bring you to our knees."
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 23/05/2018
June 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0246-16 LHD Lawyers
An advertisement for the possible need of Lawyers to make a claim.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
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
0249-16 realestate.com.au
2 couples are having dinner together and chatting, the successful couple used "realestate.com.au" and the 'fail' couple didn't.
Dismissed Real Estate TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0256-16 Sanitarium Health Food Company
Customer picked iced coffee instead of up and go.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0258-16 Mars Confectionery
A woman is sitting on a couch, and says to a man "I feel like a snack".The man says "Yeah" and goes to the kitchen and opens a cupboard.He is then repeatedly hit in the head by a number of objects that are thrown out of the cupboard.The camera then shows what are supposed to be M&M chocolates in the cupboard that are holding objects that they are about to throw.The man says "Get in the bowl", and the M&M chocolates in the cupboard say "You get in the bowl".The M&M chocolates in the cupboard then throw another object that hits the man in the h
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0260-16 HTH Group
Home Hardware - a guy comes on telling the tradies on site they're all soft because they eat cup cakes and that they need to harden up like real tradies
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0261-16 HTH Group
Home Hardware - a guy comes on telling the tradies on site they're all soft because they have scented candles and toilet paper that they need to harden up like real tradies
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
June 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0246-17 Mondelez International
Describing a person using cream cheese in a sexually suggestive way.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
0247-17 Fonterra Brands (Australia) Pty Ltd
Perfect Italiano Perfect Pizza
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
0253-17 The Salvation Army
Salvation Army appeal help victims of domestic violence. Mother has been visible bruised on face and has had to sleep in car and it is raining. Sound of rain wasn't what she remembered
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
0257-17 Clarity Hearing Solutions
The ad is for a Hearing Aid company. It demonstrates the frustration in a domestic situation when a person's deteriorating hearing is mistaken for 'selective hearing'.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Professional Services TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
0263-17 Sportsbet
The current advertising slogan and contents of SportsBet ad to promote the Android app. The ad uses the slogan 'putting the 'roid' in Android' and proceeds to show weight lifters as people who have or are perceived to have used performance enhancing drugs.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
July 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0247-14 Quit Victoria
The advertisement is a visual shock value add. It uses a narrator telling the audience that smoking is "eating you alive" while showing graphic images of disease ridden and necrotic tissue, including quite disturbing close ups of horrific facial damage. It then goes on to list stroke as another side effect. It ends with the the voice over "Smoking is eating You alive".
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0248-14 Samsung Electronics Aust Pty Ltd
The advertisement has an adult male (father?), and a child aged maybe 6 or 7 years, in the centre of an ancient roman type arena with animals, fighters about to attack, with a packed audience looking on.Then the ad switches to the lounge room with the adult and child watching the scene in which they were potentially involved in.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0253-14 Cantarella Group
The advertisement features a young boy talking to the camera about drinking good coffee. He says that he is only allowed one per day so it better be a good one. The boy is an actor from Modern Family (Rico Rodriguez) who plays the character of Manny in the show.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0256-14 Knauf Insulation Ltd
It shows people receiving and then installing earthwool Insulation in their home.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0257-14 Wendy's Supa Sundaes Pty Ltd
It is an ad for Wendys Hot dogs and Icecream. It says Wendys yum yum.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0259-14 Warner Music Aust Pty Ltd
The ad is for the latest 100% HITS album. During the ad a young lady does a cartwheel naked.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0260-14 COUGARLIFE.COM
A man approaches a woman at a desk, I think she's a lowly receptionist, and he asks her if he knows her. She says something like yes I was your professor at university. They end up having sex. I think she actually bakes him a pie. A shot of the website shows a lady cougar filling out a profile. She's a whopping 34 years old.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0263-14 Woolworths Supermarkets
The ad has a take on Austin Powers with young kids dressed up as Mini Me and the like.A stuffed animal is shown in a chair ... which gets blown up.The lead role speaks like Mini Me and has the same aggressive characters as the Austin Powers movies. The other kids in view are also dressed and acting out in this manner.The purpose of the commercial is to sell toys ... okay?
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0264-14 Virgin Money (Australia) Pty Limited
It was advertising Virgin income insurance.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0265-14 Chloe Perfume
Young girl rolling around on a bed & naked in a bath listening to a phone message from an older gentleman. requesting her to pick up the phone.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
July 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0249-14 Electrodry
The advertisement has a female and male sitting on a couch.The male moves his shoe across the carpetThe female comments, "I know, they should be professionally done over at least once per year."The male retorts, "If only I was so lucky."
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 09/07/2014
June 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0256-18 Jaguar Land Rover Australia Pty Ltd
My reason for complaining is safety. The public is told over and over about the dangers of driving through flood waters, but the land Rover Discovery advertisements recommend exactly that. "Through rivers deep" is the wording I complain about.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0257-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The adult (man) & child are in a workshop building something. The man hammers his finger accidentally and it implies that he swears in front of the child. He then is putting money in a jar labelled “swear jar”. He then takes his child to buy McDonald's with the rewards of coins from all the swearing he’s done.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0258-18 Woolworths Supermarkets
A father and his 3 children are driving to the shops. 1 of his children appears to be a teenager, 1 a tween and the other is younger than the tween. The kids are asking Dad to buy things at Woolworths. The youngest child asks for more eggs as he's making crocodiles out of the cartons.The next and final scene is Dad bringing the groceries back to the car. The 3 children are in the car. The youngest child asks his Dad if he remembered to buy the eggs. This implies that he wasn't shopping with his father and that the children were left in the car.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0259-18 ALDI Australia
An approximately 7 second long ALDI corned beef commercial, with the food product in question being 'sliced' alongside accompanying 'slicing' sound effects. The red price tag was displayed on the right hand side of the screen and there was a female voice-over
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0260-18 Gnomes
The use of innuendo via the use of an actor with a NZ accent to describe his "coloured deck". Both actors look in the direction of the NZ actors groin after the second actor makes the statement of "nice deck". The reply, again with legs apart, is that it is a "coloured deck" and he then displays a big smile. Only blind freddy would not hear the word 'deck' as 'dick' due to the NZ accent.
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0261-18 Nissan Motor Co (Aust) Pty Ltd
The advertisement is a series of shots of a woman going about her daily business, all the while being bombarded with input from other people in her day to day life. The footage then shifts to her driving a Nissan SUV.The video is available in full on the Nissan youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg0zkBK_AEM
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0263-18 Charli & Kate
I don’t know exactly what is was advertising, hair product. It showed attractive girls dancing around, showing a lot of cleavage. It’s very sexualised.
Dismissed Beauty Salon TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0264-18 Transport for NSW
The ad's slogan is Yeah, Nah and depicts a driver making a last minute decision to overtake a truck, before crashing into an oncoming vehicle with a family in it.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0265-18 Underworks
An overtly sexual and demeaning representation of a woman semi clad including her spreading her legs in a full wide open croutch shot. Completely unnecessary and offensive to me and my 12 year old child.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
July 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0258-15 AHM Health Insurance
I would like to complain about the AHM insurance ad.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0261-15 L'Oreal Australia Pty Ltd
My complaint is specifically directed at the catch phrase "F n L" pronounced "effen ell" - and as EVERYONE knows that is "polite" for "f*cking hell*.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Toiletries TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0262-15 Nestle Australia Ltd
Kit Kat advertisement about "having a break" shows a lady secretly having a Kit Kat under a tree when she is meant to be out running.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0264-15 Red Bull Aust Pty Ltd
The latest advertising campaign for Red Bull energy drink with cartoon characters suggesting you will be more attractive if you drink red bull
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0266-15 Nissan Motor Co (Aust) Pty Ltd
Commercial centred on the release of a new Nissan 4x4 utility vehicle, where it drove through a large pipe that was not restrained properly to a semi-trailer, falling off onto the ground.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
June 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0262-16 Isuzu UTE Australia Pty Ltd
The driver of the car is saying how wonderful it is to get away from "the worst apprentice".
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 22/06/2016
0263-16 Anyinginyi
There are many parents on the North Shore Of Sydney and the Outer Western Suburbs of ALL Ethnicity's, who have this F.A.S.D ,
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 22/06/2016

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