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November 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0446-16 Coca-Cola Amatil
The ad is very geared at being Australian and if people didn't know Mt Franklin was Australian and you drinking pure Australia!!!
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0447-16 Tabcorp
It was an ad about a man who leaves his family to go away for the weekend with friends, but then spends the whole day and night watching sports and using the TAB app on his phone set to the tune of "I Will Always Love You" by Bon Jovi. When he gets back the wife asks, "How was your weekend" and he smiles blissfully and says "great".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0448-16 Makita
Man in his front yard behind a white picket fence. He sees a lady running bye- she turns to say hello and he smiles and then there is a shot of him of him sexual gesturing behind the fence- the women gives him a disgusted look. The fence then falls down to reveal the action was actually the vibrating power tool.
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0451-16 Shedd
The advertisement shows young, very swim women, in various poses, and clothing simply falling off them, or is inferred to fall off them. Various types of clothing is dictated in this manner, including a bikini top and a very clear crutch Close up that explicitly focuses female genital.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0452-16 Energy Window Fashions
This advertisement features a staring wide-eyed man, talking in a strange fashion, who completes the advertisement by saying 'we may look crazy but ...
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0458-16 Aldi Australia
Small children. Teens, in bathers in adult poses, noted one was wearing lip gloss. ie inappropriate way to pose young children for advertising.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0459-16 Microsoft Pty Ltd
Ad showed cars racing at high speed, side by side on a winding road. One car on the wrong side of the road.
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0463-16 ING Direct
It has Isla Fischer interrupting a lookalike and she makes a statement about the colour of her hair (red). She states, "would I choose this hair colour?"
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
0464-16 Now Finance
A man is tied to a table and hooked up to a lot of wires. Three aliens are stood around him. This is the link to the advert on YouTube: https://youtu.be/rQjDRkVrl2w
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 09/11/2016
October 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0446-17 Crownbet
The advert focuses on the benefits of the reward program.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 11/10/2017
October 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0446-18 Stan
Advertising upcoming Stan tv show "Escape at Dannemora", adult rating of sexual nature
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0453-18 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Depicts high speed driving on country dirt roads/tracks as well as “tearing up” ground spinning wheels etc
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0454-18 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Ford vehicle that shows a man walking out in front of a car that has automatic breaking.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0456-18 Nestle Australia Ltd
Ad promoting Optifast.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0457-18 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
Emphasises power and 4wd ability of VW Amarock - including a scene suggesting a car narrowly overtakes two trucks.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0458-18 Universal Pictures
Advertisement for an upcoming horror movie Halloween.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0462-18 Jackson Motor Company
Separate scences showing a young man and a man driving different vehicles by themselves at different locations (city, country).
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
0466-18 Craveable Brands
Advertising $5 red rooster pack. A father uses a large drill to drill into a wall which has a TV on the other side. The drill goes through the TV.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 24/10/2018
November 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0448-14 Roadshow Film Distributors Pty Ltd
This ad has been on TV twice last night when watching extant and tonight both times it has utterly terrified me and others watching. I do not want to think about demons attaching themselves onto my innocent baby and shouldn't be forced to watch a quick terrifying commercial it is not fair and unjust, so so awful.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
0458-14 Cancer Coucil Australia
Details cancer awareness within the community
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
0459-14 S&P Constructions
Two women talking making references to a man who is doing some work on the property. They refer to how strong etc he (or the building work) is.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
0463-14 Peters
The advertisement is for Peters Fandangles Ice-cream products. It begins with an animated scene of swirling pink fairy-floss clouds in a purple sky with sticks of fairy-floss fluttering along with purple butterfly wings. The jingle is simplistic, using tinkly xylophone tones and the words are simply “Fandangles, fandangles said repeatedly. One of the clouds drips ice cream onto a young boy head, below. He tastes the ice-cream and says “mmm fairy floss! It closes with a product close up for a box of Peters Fandangles Fairy Floss Ice Creams.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
0464-14 Peters
The advertisement is for Peters Fandangles Ice-cream products, “Choc Shmallow” flavour. It depicts small dancing, singing marshmallows, with mouths and eyes drawn on them. A larger marshmallow then sings loudly and pushes the smaller marshmallows out of the way. It ends with a product shot of a box of 10 Peters Fandangles Choc Schmallow Ice Creams.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
0465-14 Peters
The advertisement is for Peters Fandangles Ice-cream products, “Toffee Whoopee Cookie” flavour. It depicts an animated scene with green aliens in ‘cookie ice cream spaceships. At the beginning of the ad, cows are seen grazing in a green pasture. Sticky toffee then drips onto the cows and they are whisked up into the night sky by the green aliens in the cookie spaceships. The cows then eat the cookie spaceships. The jingle is simplistic and the words are simply “Fandangles, fandangles…” said repeatedly.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 12/11/2014
November 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0449-15 Sportsbet
This ad shows a gambler at the races with what appears to be a very nasty case of sunburn beneath where binoculars would have been. It includes the comment "Don't worry it's only second degree".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0450-15 Global Shop Direct
Hello, today I was watching channel 10 (I think) in the morning and there was a disturbing ad for a laughing ball (a dog toy). The ball makes the sound of a human baby/toddler when it's bitten.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
0451-15 Golden Circle Ltd
A male adult with a child and the male slices a pineapple depicting the juice content. The impression is that these two are Australians cutting an Australian pineapple.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 11/11/2015
October 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0449-17 Lexus Australia
The ad was to sell cars
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0451-17 Heinz
The advertising begins with a man saying that ketchup is thicker than sauce and that most people do not know that this is because more tomatoes are used in ketchup than in sauce. The advertisement then shows the words 'sauce' and 'ketchup' on a white plate constructed of (presumably) sauce and ketchup respectively. When the plate is held vertically the word 'sauce' runs down the plate but the word 'ketchup' does not.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0452-17 Telstra Corporation Ltd
A Mobil plan for $99 with free Foxtel to stream on a new phone
Dismissed Mobile Phone or SMS TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0453-17 Ozmosis (Rip Curl Group)
Customers are being encouraged to show Ozmosis staff their sporting injuries to receive a discount.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Clothing TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0456-17 Sportsbet
"Merry puntmas"
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0458-17 Crayola
Crayola silly scents - flavoured markers. The children sniff and the flavours come out of their noses.
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0459-17 NEDS
Advertisement showed a building site, and the male tradespeople were giving excuses to a female client about why the work couldn't be done. In the end, she walks out and the tradesperson begins betting on his mobile phone.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0460-17 NEDS
A woman was clothes shopping and her male partner, who was gambling on his phone on the Ned's gambling site, was handing her more garments to try on so that he would have more time and privacy to continue betting. She praised him for his generosity, but he only wanted to gain time for his mobile betting while she was in the fitting room.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0461-17 NEDS
The ad showed a family/friends. A man answered his phone and it was a telemarketer. He pretended it was work and dismissed himself from the room and settled into a chair in another room and got his phone out...it said 'time to bet'. With Neds app appearing on the screen.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0462-17 NEDS
A man lets an old lady in front of him at the supermarket checkout and she has a full trolley so he can bet on his phone. 
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0463-17 Universal Pictures
Movie trailer for 'Happy Death Day' movie .Description From IMDB.com "A college student relives the day of her murder with both its unexceptional details and terrifying end until she discovers her killer's identity"This content is apparent in the advertising.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0465-17 Universal Pictures
Advertising an upcoming movie in the cinema. - Snowman
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
0466-17 Youfoodz
A young boy around 7-8 years of age has a fork in his hand while dressed like a chef and repeatedly says "forking" during his speech, which is obviously meant to be "fucking". It is inappropriate and offensive that anyone would say that in a commercial - let alone a young child. Children watch The Block and this commercial has aired numerous times during The Block. It now has the word bleeped out.... but the intent is still there.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 25/10/2017
November 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0452-15 Sexpo Pty Ltd
Ad for Sexpo aired during the last 15 minutes of The Empire Strikes Back when a large number of children would be watching is inappropriate.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
0454-15 Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency
Its a TVC in which a woman is being described by the word that appear behind her (its supposed to be about life experience)
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
0457-15 Pacific Brands Holdings Pty Ltd
Very colorful energetic advert for young women's underwear.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
0460-15 IMB Bank
Advertises moving to a bigger house with a loan from the bank.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
0462-15 OPSM Pty Ltd
A man holding sunglasses observes the beach and sun from a balcony then skateboards to the beach to meet friends having a BBQ.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
0463-15 Stan
Advertisement for Stan.com.au subsciption movie service, specifically advertising access to all "Bond" movies
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
0464-15 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Ford Focus being driven forward and backwards between rows of drummers, followed by 'wheelie' to end the commercial.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 25/11/2015
November 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0456-16 Ubank
TV ad which featured apparent terminally ill people, telling us why it is not important to prioritise real estate.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
0467-16 Ancestry
A dark haired woman with a New Zealand accent stands in front of a picture of a Maori Warrior saying she had always assumed she had some Maori ancestry but after taking the Ancestry DNA test learns she is anything but.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
December 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0462-14 QLD Police Union of Employees
The advert shows a female police officer dropping her daughter off at music lesson.The officer is then involved in a domestic violence job where the female victim is been told she is now safe while the frustrated male aggressor looks on. The advert then implies the female officer attending now becomes a victim of violence as well.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014

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