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E.g., 13/08/2022
August 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0323-15 Freedom Insurance Pty Ltd
A couple going about their day, naked, with private parts covered by signage, food, etc.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0325-15 Trivago
An older woman entering a hotel room and grabbing the young bell hopand having sex with him as implied by the noises etc in Advert. find this very offensive as young lad looks no older than 15-16 and woman 35=40.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0326-15 Hyundai Motor Company Australia Pty Ltd
Advert shows blue vehicle. Female in the Forrest and a snake. Shows female removing belt from jeans and whipping the snake which appears to retreat..she then returns to the vehicle looking smug.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0327-15 Isuzu
They show in the add a D-max snatching another vehicle out of a bog hole.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0329-15 Woolworths Supermarkets
Big W packets of family undies.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0330-15 Target Australia Pty Ltd
General Target Ad, including clothing and underwear features women in revealing underwear.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
0334-15 ANZ Banking Group Ltd
Insinuating that Women are disadvantaged in the business world when compared to men.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 26/08/2015
July 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0323-17 Launceston Show Girls
Very scantily clad women viewed from shoulders down strolling through nightclub to promote Launceston Showgirls
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0326-17 L'Oreal Australia Pty Ltd
New Ad by Emporio Armani advertising Men's and Women's Fragrances
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
0329-17 Crazy Horse Revue Pty Ltd
The new as for Crazy horse is vile. It shows multiple women in see through lingerie all being shown into a room with an old man seated in a chair. The women then bend over him showing their rear end in lingerie.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 26/07/2017
August 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0324-14 Tabcorp
A woman holding a ginger cat is speaking to an unidentified person who then lifts a smart phone in front of the screen, which then blocks the view of the woman holding the cat. The ad then describes the product/features in regards to gambling.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0326-14 Cure Brain Cancer foundation
This ad showed a child in hospital with a brain tumor removal scar across his forehead. The ad was raising awareness of childhood brain tumours.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0327-14 Valvoline (Aust) Pty Ltd
I have complaints regarding two advertisements that my grandchildren and I observed during the AFL football on channel 7 on Saturday afternoon and early evening. The second ad was for VALVOLINE Oil where drivers are turned into werewolf type characters, driving very fast.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0330-14 My Plates
The advertisement features a courier ringing the doorbell of a house with a delivery for a woman named Tanya. The man who answers the door denies that this woman is at this house. The courier insists. Tanya then comes to the door, and excitedly reaches for the parcel. While she opens it, the man shakes his head and looks desperate. Tanya pulls out a bright pink numberplate. The logo is "manproof your car".
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0331-14 ZURU Toys
The advertisement is performed by Ann-Maree Biggar. It is advertising a toy called the 'TAMAGO'.
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0338-14 AAMI
An entire family sharing the same bath
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
0344-14 Target Australia Pty Ltd
A number of different items were being advertised as part of Target spring catalogue sale.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 27/08/2014
August 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0325-16 Sunrice
Advertising rice
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0326-16 Wesfarmers Kleenheat Pty Ltd
There are several different versions of this advertisement. In each, a man is telling us how we can save money. In one he holds a big piggy bank and then a huge safe falls on him and squashes him. A second man appears and says "Just switch to Kleenheat Gas". In another the first man uses a computer to calculate savings and then gets zapped and ends up trapped in the computer.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0327-16 Wesfarmers Kleenheat Pty Ltd
There are several different versions of this advertisement. In each, a man is telling us how we can save money. A man is standing on a road verge when a Giant holding a tree strikes him so hard that he flies through the air and lands flattened in a paddock. He gives a little 'twitch' and then lies still. The second man then says again "Just switch to Kleenheat Gas".
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0328-16 Wesfarmers Kleenheat Pty Ltd
There are several different versions of this advertisement. In each, a man is telling us how we can save money.  A man uses a computer to calculate savings and then gets zapped and ends up trapped in the computer.The second man turns off the computer while the first man is appealing for help. The second man again says "Just switch to Kleenheat Gas".
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0329-16 William Hill
It was comparing the differences of betting with William Hill as opposed to other betting agencies and telling people that they are the only agency where you get a credit even if you lose, it's misleading .
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
0337-16 Pacific Brands Holdings Pty Ltd
A man and a woman competing in various activities.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 10/08/2016
July 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0325-18 Best & Less
It was a Best & Less advert with women modeling underwear in a bedroom.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
0326-18 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
The marketing commercial describes a teenagers room and in particular a boy and they are advertising to use their brand to clean the house up. There is a woman standing there with the vanish product and a young teenage boy sitting on the bed. The commercial then shows all the dirty things that the teenage boy would do for example clean messy carpet, dirty shoes, Bad smell.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
0330-18 Australian Pork
The advert shows an old, female person visiting a doctor's surgery with her spouse sitting outside in the waiting room. The woman leaves her doctor's room and tells her spouse what she thinks the doctor has advised her (they need to pork more), but she has misheard, so relates the wrong information.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
0331-18 Capilano Honey
Ad shows Adult & Child handling bees & honeycomb in the area that the bees have their hives ( boxes ). No protection at all is being worn.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 25/07/2018
September 2013
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0331-13 Windsor Smith Pty Ltd
It men with tattoos and women in underwear walking around with a white background and some contemporary music in the background.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 25/09/2013
August 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0332-18 Mars Wrigley Confectionery
MARS Bar - advert sees a young guy go to an art class. He looks up and the nude model is his mother. Son has to draw his nude mother then she approves of the nude artwork.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/08/2018
0333-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
A man drives through the McCafe Drive through while trying to order a coffee from the drive-in teller however due to a child asleep in the vehicle he does not stop. He goes through the drive through several times and succeeds to purchase the coffee on about the fourth time.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/08/2018
0338-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
A young boy 'completing' lawn mowing chore to earn money and then cashing money in at McDonald's and receiving 24 nuggets to consume.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/08/2018
0340-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The advertisement shows a young girl sitting using her phone, her unseen mother calls out and asks if the she has walked the dog, she replies that she is doing it now, the dog is walking on a machine, mother and child then go to McDonalds to purchase what is considered by most to be unhealthy food.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/08/2018
0341-18 ITP- the Income Tax Professionals
The TV ad shows man in the roof doing DIY home electrical work. He gets electrocuted, falls through the ceiling but only suffers a sore arm and cut to the forehead.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 08/08/2018
September 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0333-14 Xoticar
I believe there is only one advert. It shows many different sports cars being driven on roads.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/09/2014
August 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0336-17 Casa Mia
Ive found my fit 5 ladies in lingerie. And the lady from Casa Mia. Says your perfect fit.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
0337-17 Best & Less
The advertisement is for Best & Less selling women's underwear and shows women standing in bra and underpants.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
0338-17 Bayer Australia Ltd
An ad supposedly impersonating a farmer advertising a product he uses. Which is avenge lice control for sheep. He uses the words bloody and bugger.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
0339-17 Honda Australia Pty Ltd
The advertisement depicts Honda Civic vehicles driving in opposing circles on a dirt surface at speed sufficient to throw up dirt from the wheels.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
0340-17 Purplebricks
The family sit around the table in the backyard while the young husband is cooking, the father in law asks his son in law did they use purple bricks to sell their house because they have no fees, he said "no fees!! I'll be back," then goes and puts his head underwater in the esky for a long time.
Dismissed Real Estate TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
0341-17 Lexus Australia
The advertisement described the power and speed of the red Lexus sports car.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
0343-17 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
A commercial for toilet spray. IP Poo?
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
0344-17 The Man Shake
A commercial for "Man Shake" - three men at a bar discussing the "shake". The commercial features Adam Macdougall.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
0345-17 Ferrero Australia Pty Ltd (Ferrero Rocher)
Kinder Surprise - Give Some Surprise Back Despicable Me 3 Toys. The advertisement is for Kinder Surprise chocolate, containing toys from the very recent children’s movie Despicable Me 3. The advertisement is a 15 second film clip showing a young child engaged in an activity while seated at the family coffee table. The words ‘your kids never stop surprising you’ are flashed briefly on the screen. The young child is then presented with a Kinder Surprise chocolate. He is shown to express delight when he sees the Kinder Surprise chocolate, mouthing what appears to be the word ‘WOW’.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 09/08/2017
September 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0340-15 Unicharm Australasia (VIC)
An angry woman attacks another woman seemingly because she has her period.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 09/09/2015
0344-15 Northern Territory Tourism
Features actors of various ages referring to people who'd gone on holiday but conveyed as though they had passed away. In every scene the person/people being discussed were mature aged.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 09/09/2015
0345-15 Youi Car Insurance
A car full of young people and the passengers are distracting the driver by using a mobile phone in the back seat.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Insurance TV - Free to Air 09/09/2015
0348-15 AAMI
The son doesn't have the right insurance, is injured, and has to live at home. The mother is seen in an unnatural act with a dog. Humans don't normally have such an unnatural relationship with their dog.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 09/09/2015
September 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0341-14 Rebel Sport Ltd
People are running around the yarra river in southbank running on the ledges of bridges etc wearing Adidas sports clothing
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 10/09/2014
0343-14 Advanced Medical Institute
It was an AMI Advertisement that I saw on Channel 7 that had 3 ladies yelling from a balcony that they can't take it any more and that they want longer lasting SEX.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Professional Services TV - Free to Air 10/09/2014
August 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0344-16 Stuart Alexander & Co Pty Ltd
Werthers caramel sweets being advertised as 'no added sugar'
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/08/2016

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