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February 2000
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23-00 Womans Room (The)
Womans Room (The) - De jour tampons
Dismissed Health Products 08/02/2000
June 2007
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158-07 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
GlaxoSmithKline - Nicabate - monster-like creatures with cartoon brains
Dismissed Health Products 12/06/2007
November 2001
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297-01 Naturopathica
Naturopathica - Horny Goat Weed - Devil horns on 'H' of large-type headline reading 'Get Horny' - man and woman in sexual position
Dismissed Health Products Outdoor 13/11/2001
October 2009
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385-09 Enhance Plastic Surgery
Enhance Plastic Surgery - (385/09)Print photos of uncovered breasts in free unrestricted magazine
Dismissed Health Products Print 14/10/2009
December 2014
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0513-14 Advanced Medical Institute
"do you want longing lasting sex" "Do you want to make her moan?"
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Health Products Radio 10/12/2014
January 2008
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438-07 Procter & Gamble Australia Pty Ltd
Procter & Gamble - Metamucil - mother puts powder in food rather than kids eating fresh vegetables for fibre
Dismissed Health Products 16/01/2008
June 2003
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183-03 Advanced Medical Institute
AMI - 'Restore your sex life'.
Dismissed Health Products Outdoor 10/06/2003
July 2004
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156-04 Orchard Manufacturing Co Pty ltd
Orchard Manufacturing - Nulax - people dancing out of toilets-women with knickers at knees, men shown at crotch level, zipping up with dunny in background
Dismissed Health Products 13/07/2004
August 1999
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253-99 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Glaxo Wellcome - influenza awareness campaign - virago
Dismissed Health Products 10/08/1999
251-99 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Glaxo Wellcome - Influenza (Print)
Dismissed Health Products Print 10/08/1999
July 2009
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291-09 Plant Health Pty Ltd
Planet Health (291/09)Print - Life Stream Bowel Biotecs+ bowel cleansing supplement
Dismissed Health Products Print 08/07/2009
August 2009
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343-09 Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers - TV (343/09) fingers superglued to keyboard
Dismissed Health Products 12/08/2009
June 2011
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0176-11 Queensland Association for Health Communities
The words "Rip & Roll" are written in large letters across the centre of the Billboard. Underneath in smaller writing it reads, "A safe sex message from Health Communitues. 1800 155 141 qahc.org.au." To the left is a large image of a red condom in its wrapper, and to the right is a large image of two men: one man is embracing the other man from behind whilst holding a red condom wrapper in his right hand.
Dismissed Health Products Billboard 08/06/2011
May 2004
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110-04 Pfizer Australia Pty Ltd
Pfizer - Nicorette - "Nip & Tuck" woman at party jealous of another's looks, starts speculating why "What will she give up next? Liposuction?"
Dismissed Health Products 11/05/2004
111-04 Procter & Gamble Australia Pty Ltd
Procter & Gamble - Metamucil - man eats soap, woman eats face washer, woman sticks hose in mouth - let natural fibres clean your insides out
Dismissed Health Products 11/05/2004
January 2018
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0570-17 VIMN
Showing drastic body image type on a channel with a huge teen demographic, completely irresponsible to impressionable teenagers showing a woman amd guy who work out excessively. With so much pressure already on kids to look ‘perfect’ this promotes a distorted vue of what is ‘healthy’ shame on MTV and Chemist Warehouse for producing and airing such damaging material to young impressionable minds
Dismissed Health Products TV - Pay 24/01/2018
May 2008
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179-08 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
Reckitt Benckiser - Nurofen for children - flying babies
Dismissed Health Products 19/05/2008
June 2006
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185-06 Novartis Consumer Health A/asia Pty Ltd
Novartis Consumer Health - Benefiber - very skinny young female model demonstrates how easy it is to take fibre - struts and bends over to display skinny rear
Dismissed Health Products 13/06/2006
March 2002
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64-02 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
GlaxoSmithKline - NicabateCQ- cricketers watching local game, one giving up smoking and showing a patch on his arm. When his turn comes, he grabs a groin protector and says "You can never have enough protection"
Dismissed Health Products 12/03/2002
July 2015
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0269-15 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Panadol
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
June 2000
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164-00 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Glaxo Wellcome - Zantac Relief - 'Down, boy'
Dismissed Health Products 13/06/2000
August 2013
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0293-13 Sanofi Aventis
Male drinking a concoction of milk/vegetation from a boot.
Dismissed Health Products 28/08/2013
August 2015
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0300-15 WA AIDS Council
Advertisement by Project X on Page 6 of the Perth Voice local newspaper (delivered free to all homes, circulation 31,000). The Advert promotes two information forums:1) Better Head and Orgasms2) A** Classincluding health rectum, anal sex, douching, giving and getting what most men dream of.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Health Products Print 12/08/2015
August 2007
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247-07 Johnson & Johnson Pacific Pty Ltd
Johnson & Johnson - Nicorette (Radio) - "Quitting is hard, just cut smoking down a little with gum" - driver of golf cart to another
Dismissed Health Products Radio 14/08/2007
March 2019
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0056-19 Medibank Private Ltd
Channel 7 went to an adbreak from the news and immediately went to a Medibank Health Update which contained a reporter and an interviewee. A Channel 7 lower thirds chryon came up explaining upcoming news stories. It stayed on for a large duration of this advertorial. After it finished and the Channel 7 information went away a Medibank insurance ad came on as part of the normal ad break.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Health Products TV - Free to Air 06/03/2019
April 2012
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0153-12 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
A mum talks about how she wants her children to be healthy, happy and safe and so she used ‘Nurofen for children’ for her daughter's fever. We then see the mum holding her baby who is wearing a teething bead necklace.
Dismissed Health Products 24/04/2012
June 2016
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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
September 2019
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0312-19 LifeStyles Healthcare
Skyn Lubricant - This TV on demand advertisement depicts various individuals’ hands caressing flowers, while the voice overs describe what they are looking for from their partners regarding their intimacy.
Dismissed Health Products TV - On Demand 25/09/2019
February 2020
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0064-20 Wicked Campers
This transport advertisement features the text Slogan "I might have lost my virginity but I've still got the box it came in" on the back of the van. QLD Registration number 108 XUV.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Automotive Transport 26/02/2020
February 2016
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0023-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Ultra Tune advert
Dismissed Automotive Internet 10/02/2016
October 2020
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0291-20 Fiat Chrysler Australia Pty Ltd
This television advertisement opens on an aerial shot of a remote petrol station in Australia. Two men stand out front of a petrol station discussing the new Jeep that has stopped at the petrol station. One man comments "What's a car like that doing in a place like this?".
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 07/10/2020
February 2017
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0055-17 The BOSS Shop
Ad describes various products and services they provide.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0029-17 Super Cheap Auto Pty Ltd
4X4 vehicles are air lifted onto a beach similar to the Gold Coast. They speed up the beach ripping up the sand. They then steer towards a security area and ignore the security guard who attempts to raise a safety barrier The guard has to dive out of the way as the 4x4 s smash their way into the property.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0042-17 Ultra Tune Australia
2 young women perceived as helpless wearing next to nothing and acting like bimbos driving a car.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
January 2015
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0557-14 Ultra Tune Australia
I visited the Ultra Tune website to determine where my closest store is located. Once there, an advertisement popped up to saying "We do things strictly by the book. Talk to us about Manufacturer's Handbook Service to keep your warranty intact." Then a clickable button to find the closest Ultra Tune, or the option to close the advertisement.
Dismissed Automotive Internet 14/01/2015
July 2016
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0289-16 Ultra Tune Australia
This is in relation to two ads. I have just watched the second of two sexist ads tonight on network nine. This first ad two women in a car drive of a cliff and are rescued by Ultratune men in a helicopter - the last screen finishes with a shot of the women look up to the men in a gratuitous cleavage shot. The second ad are two women again depicting a 'dumb' stereotype accidentally getting soaked going through a car wash with the top down.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 13/07/2016
July 2019
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0234-19 Isuzu Ute Australia Pty Ltd
This television advertisement features a blue Isuzu D-Max Ute being taken into the bush/hills by a family with a border collie pet dog.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 24/07/2019
September 2019
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0260-19 Ultra Tune Australia
This YouTube advertisement features four women in a pink convertible driving off a pier and being rescued by Charlie Sheen.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Automotive Internet - Social - Other 11/09/2019
May 2019
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0089-19 Touch Up Guys
A current ad 'The touch up guys" with the catch line...'Just don't let anyone touch you up' is for car repairs
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 08/05/2019
July 2014
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0276-14 My Plates
Www.manproof. Com.au. Man picking nose and wipes it on car door.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
March 2020
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0087-20 Darra Tyres
This internet advertisement depicts a woman in black lingerie posed between two tyres, with her hands on one and her feet on the other. Text states "Our performance RUBBERS *Carriage not included". The impression of the advertisement is that the woman is the body of a motorbike.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive Internet 11/03/2020
September 2020
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0253-20 Harrigan Motor Group
This television advertisement depicts a man dressed in female clothing (a pink skirt suit and red hair wig) shopping for a vehicle. The car salesman repeatedly suggests that she may be interested in a Ranger and she dismisses him several times, however eventually drives away in a Ranger.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 09/09/2020
February 2018
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0051-18 BP Australia Pty Ltd
Using a mobile phone at a petrol station which some idiots will take for granted and use it for other stuff and blow them up
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 21/02/2018
March 2014
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0067-14 Bomaderry Tyres
They are advertising different types of tyres they are selling. The advertisement is on 94.9 pm Nowra radio station. Bomaderry.
Dismissed Automotive Radio 12/03/2014
November 2013
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0404-13 Everlast Trading
A fax was sent to my office advertising Truck Tarps and new website - Visit our new website for a chance to win trip to Las Vegas.Everlast Australia Wide Truck TarpsPH 1300795112PO Box 7231 Mount Annan NSW 2567
Dismissed Automotive Print 27/11/2013
April 2014
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0125-14 Tyres4U
Starring Vince Sorrenti ad claims to find the right tyres for your car
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive 23/04/2014
November 2018
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0477-18 New Age Caravans
The large advertisement is across the entire bottom third of the page (I think it was Page 9, 11 or 13, right-hand side fairly close to the front); showing a large photo of a New Age Caravan Wayfinder camper parked (with no car attached) across two lanes of a country road, over double yellow lines. The heading is Escape The Ordinary.
Dismissed Automotive Print 14/11/2018
May 2014
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0160-14 World Mark Motor One
30 second radio commercial with police siren in advert all the time.
Dismissed Automotive Radio 14/05/2014
February 2018
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0029-18 Ultra Tune Australia
Advertising ultra tune services for when people have car accidents/ breakdowns. 3 women in car who crash into a tiger then mike Tyson comes along to help.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Pay 07/02/2018
April 2017
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0154-17 Ultra Tune Australia
Two young women in a convertible car broken down and burning & exploding. The ladies are eventually approached by a car technician to see if they needed help (the problem was caused by an exhaust pipe falling off and igniting fuel
Dismissed Automotive TV - Pay 12/04/2017

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