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April 2003
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64-03 Telstra - Sensis Pty Ltd
Telstra-Sensis - Yellow Pages - dog defecating.
Dismissed Telecommunications 08/04/2003
February 2019
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0048-19 ANZ Banking Group Ltd
A young person in a wheelchair was being chased/attacked scared for their well-being as they were being hunted down by a tiger.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
June 2009
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208-09 Wrigley Co Pty Ltd The
Wrigley Co P/L (208/09)TV - man with elephant-like beard picks up 'skittles' to put in his mouth and that of woman sitting opposite
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries 10/06/2009
226-09 Wicked Campers
Wicked Camper 226/09 - Success of Ageing
Dismissed Travel Transport 10/06/2009
September 2012
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0378-12 McDonald's Aust Ltd
A male voiceover describes McDonald’s new product: the Serious Lamb Taster. We see the ingredients of the Lamb Taster being compiled and the voiceover starts quoting from the nursery rhyme 'Mary had a little lamb': "For only $3 you can afford one for the master, one for the dame and one for the little boy who lives down the lane".
Dismissed Other 12/09/2012
April 2001
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67-01 Ron Fawkes Mr
Ron Fawkes - 'Homosexuality - What Does God Say?'
Dismissed Other Print 10/04/2001
March 2011
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0053-11 Yum Restaurants International
A man is cleaning out his pool when his wife calls out that dinner is ready. He asks what it is and she replies, "Monday's meatloaf". The man's alter ego then says to him that he should not have to eat leftovers for dinner and suggests he drive over to KFC and pick up the new Streetwise Dinner for $19.95.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries 09/03/2011
July 2000
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211-00 RockCity Event Marketing Pty Ltd
RockCity Event Marketing - Col Elliot
Dismissed Entertainment 11/07/2000
October 2011
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0382-11 Virbac Australia
The advertisement in question is for Multimin injection for Cattle and depicts a singing cartoon bull, various cartoon cows and calves and features the closing line “who’s your daddy?”
Dismissed Professional Services 12/10/2011
February 2001
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7-01 Columbian Cola Drink Company
Columbian Cola Drink Co - sexy girl
Dismissed 13/02/2001
July 2007
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214-07 Roads & Traffic Authority
Roads & Traffic Authority - Pinkie (TV)- young men speeding or driving unlawfully are alluded to as having a small penis
Dismissed Community Awareness 10/07/2007
October 2010
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0386-10 Status Anxiety
A man dressed like a homeless person, lying on some cardboard with a status anxiety wallet in his hand.
Dismissed Retail Print 27/10/2010
March 2000
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72-00 Sydney Morning Herald (The)
Sydney Morning Herald - Chris O'Halloran on technology and religion
Dismissed Media 14/03/2000
July 1999
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217-99 Kemalda Entertainment Pty Ltd
Kemalda - Rodney Rude - "Pauline Hanson"
Dismissed Entertainment 13/07/1999
October 2015
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0389-15 Bank of Western Australia Ltd (Bankwest)
John McEnroe shouting at a female member of the banks' staff.
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 14/10/2015
March 1999
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74-99 Blacktown Motor World
Blacktown Motor World - "Small town service in the big city"
Dismissed Retail 09/03/1999
March 2019
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0064-19 Ubisoft P/L
On demand television advertisement for Far Cry game which featured the lyrics 'it's raining men' and vision of women shooting men in a bar.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - On Demand 06/03/2019
April 1998
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22-98 Aussie Home Loans
Aussie Home Loans - mugshots - crim and banker
Dismissed Finance/Investment Print 14/04/1998
October 2014
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0393-14 General Pants Group
Girls dressed in swimmers with the words "Wet Dreams".
Dismissed Clothing Internet - Social - Other 08/10/2014
0397-14 AAMI
A man sitting in a bath with a big dog.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 08/10/2014
July 1998
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77-98 The Sunday Telegraph
Sunday Telegraph (The) - "Russian Dolls"
Dismissed Media 14/07/1998
February 2017
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0068-17 Nestle Australia Ltd
It was about using this product to lose weight and how this was achieved. References made to ketosis.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 22/02/2017
July 2003
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223-03 Australian Therapeutic Supplies Pty Ltd
Australian Therapeutic Supplies - Four Seasons Condoms - women talk about sex using condoms.
Dismissed Health Products Radio 08/07/2003
January 2009
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8-09 Autobarn
Autobarn - man applies car engine oil to a pizza and two men with knives threaten sheep
Dismissed Retail 21/01/2009
November 2013
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0401-13 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
I find the new Volkswagen car ad very stigmatising towards our elderly population, references to hair growing on upper lips, plastic hips, an elderly lady judging her what seems to be gay grandson, and a few other references ... Honestly our elderly population already have to deal with stigma and discrimination on a daily basis, do we really need to see it now on our television ads also?
Dismissed Vehicle 27/11/2013
April 2000
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83-00 Sara Lee Apparel Group
Sara Lee Apparel - Wonderbra - 3 advertisements: 'Get off here', 'Am I keeping you up?', 'By the way, my eyes are blue'
Dismissed Clothing Outdoor 11/04/2000
March 2015
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0076-15 Frucor Beverages Australia
The advertisement was for a sports drink called Maximus. It is bottled in a 1 litre bottle, and the billboard explicitly imply masturbation. They lube up their hands and shake the bottle before the bottle cap pops off.The punchline was something like you need a big grip, can you handle the size?
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries Billboard 11/03/2015
February 2002
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23-02 Digital Audio Group
Digital Audio Group - copulating couple - 'DB dynamics loudspeakers really get you pumping'
Dismissed Print 12/02/2002
March 2008
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85-08 Hungry Jacks
Hungry Jacks - apprentice sent off to buy construction crew's lunch
Dismissed 12/03/2008
March 2018
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0080-18 Bras n' Things
It was basically the beginning of a bedroom scene.I was shocked when I glanced over to the shop and was confronted with a large poster in front of the shop of a girl in "sexy" lingerie laying down with a man behind her with his hand across her waist.If people want to think about raunchy bedroom scenes, they can do it on their own time. We don't need it forced on us and our small children while out grocery shopping.I know they've been in trouble for this kind of thing very recently. They only care about sales not the public.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 07/03/2018
July 2006
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232-06 Optus Communications
Optus - octopus with tentacles on mobile phone and other tentacles making different statements with references to "sweet sweet" and "golden frothy" beer. "Who says men can't multitask?"
Dismissed Print 11/07/2006
235-06 IKEA
IKEA - young boy bored at furniture store - now has play equipment and a café - later seen in back of car - apparrently not wearing seatbelt or in child restraint
Dismissed 11/07/2006
September 2018
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0409-18 Lion
The Instagram post dated June 28th 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BkjtA0UHMao/?taken-by=brisbanegirlsabroad) depicts two young women holding bottles of XXXX Summer Bright Lager. The post is from Brisbane Girls Abroad’s Instagram page that has 7,399 followers (https://www.instagram.com/brisbanegirlsabroad/) and is captioned: “When you lug a picnic up the mountain only for it to pour rain as soon as you sit down ????????We’ve always wanted to picnic at the top of Ngungun...didn’t quite turn out how we expected ???????
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
April 2007
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88-07 Tricon Restaurants International
Tricon - Pizza Hut - Cheesy Bites - Jessica Simpson pops cheesy bite into young boys mouth and singing "One of these days these bites are gonna pop right into you"
Dismissed 10/04/2007
March 2016
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0084-16 Adam & Eve
The TV advertisement is for “JO” brand personal lubricants and “adam&eve”, a company which sells the products. The advertisement footage consists of 12 consecutive frames. Frame 1 shows a topless woman lying face down on top of a topless man, who is lying on his back. Both the woman and the man are wearing black underpants. The woman’s underpants are revealing. The left-half of the woman’s left breast is exposed.Frame 2 shows footage of a woman’s torso. The woman’s face is not shown. The woman is wearing a bra and underpants. The woman is lying on her back.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 09/03/2016
0092-16 FOXTEL Management Pty Ltd
Two woman were sitting in a small and sparse kitchen - one was giving another a gift. It was a matryoshka doll. One woman explain how it went - then said it costs $50The voiceover then came in an said 'Australians would prefer to spend their money on this (or something of that nature) and it then advertised Foxtel.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 09/03/2016
October 2016
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0413-16 Allaro Homes
TV advert for home builders
Dismissed Real Estate TV - Free to Air 12/10/2016
April 1999
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90-99 Women's Policy Office WA
Women's Policy Office WA - Freedom from Fear - TV, Radio, Print
Dismissed Community Awareness 13/04/1999
March 2015
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0088-15 Mars Confectionery
The advertisement for Maltesers has two women eating maltesers and then putting their sleeping boyfriends in a sexual/suggestive position and then laughing at them. The advertisement perpetuates the idea that being gay is something to be ridiculed.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 25/03/2015
December 1998
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238-98 Unilever Australasia
Unilever - Continental - Cup-A-Sauce - "Just like your sister's."
Dismissed 08/12/1998
240-98 Lyn White Furniture World
Lyn White Furniture World - "Bloody"
Dismissed Radio 08/12/1998
October 2014
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0417-14 Krystal Adult World
Advertisement covers a purple van with a large (oversize) image of a woman wearing very little and holding a whip.
Dismissed Sex Industry Transport 22/10/2014
March 2007
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93-07 Thoroughbred Racing South Australia (SA) Limited
Thoroughbred Racing SA - Adelaide Cup 2007 (Print) - woman holding whip
Dismissed Print 13/03/2007
October 2015
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0421-15 Ubet
Gambling ad
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 28/10/2015
April 2006
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96-06 David Jones Ltd
David Jones - Simone Perele lingerie - woman wearing bra and panty set, lying sideways on a bed of yellow flowers
Dismissed Clothing Outdoor 11/04/2006
September 2005
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244-05 Carpet Court
Carpet Court - "shipload" of carpets spoken by court jester figure - onscreen text "shipload sale"
Dismissed 13/09/2005
December 2013
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0425-13 Warner Village Theme Parks
An internet ad on the side bar of the smh.com homepage showing youing girls coming down a slide at a water park.
Dismissed Tourist Attractions Internet 11/12/2013
April 2009
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99-09 Ramp 2 Ramp
Ramp 2 Ramp - TV images of shop stock with end catch phrase of "Have you got the balls?"
Dismissed Clothing 08/04/2009
March 2012
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0100-12 THQ Asia Pacific Pty Ltd
A poster advertising the release of the videogame, UFC Undisputed 3, that was placed on bus and tram panels. The image is of a man kicking another man in the face and the text reads, "UFC 3... Your move."
Dismissed Entertainment Transport 28/03/2012
July 2009
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247-09 Club X
Club X - Radio describing how a vibrator works and what it offers.
Dismissed Sex Industry Radio 08/07/2009

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