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November 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0491-14 Camel Tanks
A man shows his friend his new water tank, his wife slaps him on the head.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
0493-14 Davey Water Products
Advertisement is for Davey Water Pumps. A lady is having a shower (can not see her, we can only hear that she is in the shower). She exclaims how happy she is with the water pressure now that they have a new pump, and says to her husband "would you like to join me?" He swears (which is beeped) and leaps out of his chair to go and join her in the shower.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
0495-14 S C Johnson & Son Pty Ltd
Mr Muscle cleaning ad where the boy develops Mr Muscle so his mum can spend less time on cleaning and more time playing with him.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
0496-14 Best & Less
Mum dancing and trying on underwear in a change room. Child opens curtain and mum is embarrassed. Woman is seen completely in her underwear.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
0500-14 RAC of WA (Incorporated)
There are a group of catholic nuns stuck on the road side who don't want help. Then there is a group of catholic nuns in lingerie who want help.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 26/11/2014
January 2016
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0491-15 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
The ad depicts a Toyota Hilux being driven on the open road. The driver is confronted with a number of cyclists riding across the road and weaves round them.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0493-15 Advanced Medical Institute
Promotion of longer lasting sex by company AMI due to erectile dysfunction/premature ejaculation.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0497-15 Shiels Jewellers
Images of a nude man and woman embracing in a seductive pose, words popping up to describe them.. beautiful, sex etc.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0500-15 Novus Auto Glass
They are advertising repairing cracks in the car windows.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0506-15 Freeview
Advert advertising Freeview TV where young girls uses the phrase "Oh My God."
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0507-15 Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund
The ad shows a man walking down the street towards a subway restaurant who undertakes three activities on his way. In one scene he ducks underneath a pain of glass that two workmen are carrying.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0510-15 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
The ad involves a car racing two bikes down a hill, with the end line "don't worry, it's a mitsi"
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0511-15 Patties Foods Pty Ltd
The TV advertisement promotes Patties Party Pies. The advertisement opens with a mother taking Party Pies out of the oven and calling, “Daniel, the Party Pies are ready”. Music similar to the Star Wars theme then begins as the family heads towards the kitchen in slow motion to eat the Party Pies, chanting to the song. Their son then appears dressed as an astronaut walking slowly down the stairs to the kitchen, as the parents continue chanting to the music and thumping the table. The boy sits at the table and takes off his helmet as the father passes him a party pie.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
0513-15 Cricket Australia
The advertisements for Brisbane Heat is marketing family fun. It is full of "boing, boing" sound effects. This tv adversisement has plenty of family and kids images of fun at the cricket. This advertisement includes 2 slim, very pretty women, in tight garments, standing and jumping up and down. One in a tight blue dress and the other in a tied shirt.These women are jumping up and down with well-timed "boing boing" sound effects.
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 20/01/2016
November 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort descending Determination date
0491-17 Total Tools
The advert is swearing whilst bleeping out the word "fuck" and using an overlay such as #*+%!It is clear they are saying fuck and my children are seeing this and hearing it.They clearly say in the advert "we fucking swear by our prices"...bleeping out the fuck section of fuck-ing and keeping the "ing"
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 08/11/2017
0492-17 NEDS
The NEDS ads show characters who are addicted to gambling. For example it shows  somebody pressing every button on an elevator so that they have more time to gamble. All the ads show total gambling addiction!
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 08/11/2017
0499-17 Catch Group
The ad shows 2 men using urinals, leaping around and screaming at each other.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 08/11/2017
November 2018
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0492-18 Hanes Brands Inc
Television advertisement featuring Serena Williams and the song 'I touch myself' for breast cancer awareness.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 14/11/2018
0494-18 BCF
The BCF ad sings “BCFing Gun”
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 14/11/2018
January 2015
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0494-14 Club Money
Two men in a bar see two women and want to buy them a drink but they have to borrow the money to do so.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 28/01/2015
November 2017
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0498-17 Stan
In the commercial there are two parts in the montage showing moments of heterosexual sex scenes. One is showing a couple in bed looking at each other face to face erotically about to start having sex, the other a woman is shown from behind straddling a man as if being pushed down onto the man's penis.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 22/11/2017
0510-17 KIA Automotive Australia
A Kia Rio is seen speeding across a wide open space. It then does a sudden turn (a four-wheel drift) and comes to a stop.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 22/11/2017
0516-17 Roadshow Films
Promotion of new release movie Bad Moms 2
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 22/11/2017
November 2016
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0499-16 Renault Australia
Renault Megane is seen speeding towards camera. Joined by 2 other vehicles. The vehicle in front makes a very sudden turn to the right of the screen, with sounds of a high revving engine, no indicators and throwing up a lot of sand as in a 4 wheel drift.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
0500-16 Marshall Batteries
Husband and pregnant wife stagger down steps and get into car, attempt to start the car to head to hospital, however car does not start. They call Marshal Battery replacement.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
0502-16 Danone
The ad is about building foundation for babies 1st special achievements.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
0506-16 Crownbet
It is one of the Crown Bet money back ads that says if your horse doesn't win you get your money back
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 23/11/2016
December 2014
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0504-14 Cars Guide
A young lady standing on the right of screen in front of a purple background and an older man standing on the left side in front of a white background. A man is hit in the head and groin by a ball or by bees.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
0506-14 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
Mitsubishi Outlander 4WD:A couple drive to their children’s school and go into the school during school hours to take their two children, age range 6-9 yrs, out of class to go recreational driving off road and Beach driving. The vehicle drives on the beach to meet a sea plane.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
0507-14 Fantasy Lingerie
Girls wearing sexy/fantasy lingerie posing on all fours and with their legs open.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
0511-14 ASSA ABLOY
An ad for LOCKWOOD Digital Door Lock. A woman appears to be locked out of her home when putting the garbage out but the voiceover says "just use the finger" and she holds her index finger up to then put in the key pad code to enter her home.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
0514-14 Pacific Brands Holdings Pty Ltd
The new Bonds underwear advertisement. People in underwear on swings and doing somersaults.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
0516-14 AAMI
Two men in vehicle dressed in fancy dress swerve to avoid a cat on the road (Trevor) which is owned by a female jogger, cat runs up tree and one man in the car tries to rescue it.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
0518-14 QANTAS Airways Ltd
The latest Qantas advert is for workers from what appears to be remote locations going to fly home to family.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
0520-14 Coles
The Coles advertisement exclaims that their washing powder is only $4, everyday etc.
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 10/12/2014
November 2018
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0505-18 Carlton and United Breweries
An adult male is used to represent a bottle of Carlton Dry. He is taken from a beer fridge and slid across a bar to a customer. The customer then walks through the bar carrying the male as if he was a bottle of beer. They pass a 'stereotypical' German in Bavarian costume to highlight the difference in the beers.
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 28/11/2018
0507-18 Department of Social Services
A Father, Young son and daughter are in a car and the son mentions detention for lifting a girls skirt. The father makes a comment in disbelief. The little girl then speaks about how she is already going to accept that in the future she will be harassed and possibly abused.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 28/11/2018
0508-18 IAG Insurance
Man rides motorcycle to shops repeating milk and toilet paper over and over, then stops to urinate on a tree before continuing to ride to shops.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 28/11/2018
0509-18 Hanes Brands Inc
Bonds television advertisement featuring an Australian white Christmas.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 28/11/2018
0514-18 BizCover
This ad shows a dirty and neglected foot with severely overgrown pixelated toenails which are in the  process of being clipped. The intended message being rather than watching something like this one should go to Bizcover's website and make us of their products.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 28/11/2018
December 2016
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0507-16 Aldi Australia
The entire ad presents Americans in a negative light, celebrating Christmas in an inferior way to Australian celebrations.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 07/12/2016
0509-16 Enably.com.au
The advertisement shows a man standing in a hallway with a ladder and a cat that he promised a banking authority he would teach to change a light bulb.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 07/12/2016
0511-16 Ozkleen
I don't think we need to see a man in a pair of biggie smugglers cleaning a shower then turn around to the front and the camera show her personal part it looks gross
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 07/12/2016
0520-16 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
Young females in their under wear stroking their bodies in the genial area / vagina also with the hair removal product several times. This was shown in a provocative and titillating way.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 07/12/2016
January 2015
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0512-14 Crawford Productions Pty Ltd
The advertisement lasting about 40 seconds was showing old re-runs of this old show Acropolis now and trying to sell DVD's. During one of the quick scenes an actor utters the words - "They call me wog" the ad then switches to other scenes of this old show.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 14/01/2015
December 2018
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0513-18 Skoda
The lyrics of the song on the ad ("Stone Cold Classic" by AKA George) includes the line "I goddamn have it"
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/12/2018
0515-18 Munchkin Inc
The ad shows cows roaming free and the manufacturer is saying their formula is 100% grass fed cows. But it’s insinuating that the cows shown are the cows that the milk is from. When in actual fact the milk comes from cows that are mass produced and are used and abused. They are impregnated with a rape tools and are not happy and free roaming cows as per portrayed.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 12/12/2018
0518-18 Telstra Corporation Ltd
Many gadgets for christmas. Use of drone by children too close to parents kissing under mistletoe.
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 12/12/2018
0519-18 World Animal Protection
Encouraging viewers to help protect abused animals by showing footage of animals including bears, elephants and dogs being treated cruelly.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 12/12/2018
December 2017
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0518-17 Hungry Jacks
A man is consuming a healthy beverage ie: wheatgrass juice at a health food bar and the plastic burger phone rings he answers it and a voice is telling him to ditch the juice and go to Hungry Jacks to buy an iced soft drink. He throws the wheatgrass juice over another patron and leaves for Hungry Jacks.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 06/12/2017

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