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April 1999
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Categorysort descending Media Determination date
89-99 Mercantile Mutual Holdings Ltd
Mercantile Mutual Holdings - Mercantile Mutual Cup
Dismissed Print 13/04/1999
112-99 Supa Clean Machine Hand Carwash
Supa Clean Machine Hand Carwash - "Best hand-job in town"
Dismissed Outdoor 13/04/1999
December 1998
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236-98 Freedom Furniture Ltd
Freedom Furniture - "I love you Baby"
Dismissed Cinema 08/12/1998
May 1999
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100-99 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
Mitsubishi - Magna - "Red sports car overtakes the Magna"
Dismissed 11/05/1999
May 2001
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92-01 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
Toyota - LandCruiser - 'Battle of the Elements' - 'bloody weather'
Dismissed 08/05/2001
October 2002
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242-02 Performance Automobiles
Performance Automobiles - Nissan 200 ZX - 'fast and furious'.
Dismissed Print 08/10/2002
October 2001
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249-01 Holden Ltd
Holden - Commodore Series 2 - man drives around toys as obstacles in driveway
Dismissed 09/10/2001
May 2003
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119-03 Nestle Chilled Dairy
Nestle - Chilled Dairy - All Natural Yogurt - Indians singing and dancing.
Dismissed 13/05/2003
145-03 Meat & Livestock Australia Ltd
Meat & Livestock - 'Training' - Under-11s soccer match - Billy looks tired then starts eating meat.
Dismissed 13/05/2003
July 2006
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257-06 Hyundai Motor Company Australia Pty Ltd
Hyundai - Grandeur 194 V6 - Drive The Dream - sleeping man with eyelids tremouring as he dreams of driving the car
Dismissed 11/07/2006
April 2006
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121-06 Energex Limited
Energex - Drop Everything - staff respond immediately to emergency - Adam leaves food half eaten; Pam leaves redecorating job with mauve paint dripping down walls; Guy leaves his dog sopping wet from a half-finished bath
Dismissed 11/04/2006
February 1999
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26-99 Sony Computer Entertainment Aust Pty Ltd
Sony Computer Entertainment - Double Lives
Dismissed 09/02/1999
April 2009
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124-09 Rozelle Rugs
Rozelle Rugs - closing down sale with photographic image of girl with "sale' written across her face implying she is for sale
Dismissed Print 08/04/2009
March 2003
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27-03 Kellogg (Aust) Pty Ltd
Kellogg - Just Right - newsreader reports giant banana, coconut & apples trees missing.
Dismissed 11/03/2003
August 2008
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278-08 Advanced Medical Institute
AMI - Want Longer Lasting SEX 278/08 - re-examination of 20/07
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Outdoor 13/08/2008
June 2002
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142-02 Energex Limited
Energex - "Is there a killer in your home?" Woman viewing lineup to identify killer among faulty electrical appliances
Dismissed 11/06/2002
September 2007
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283-07 Sleepyhead Bedding
Sleepyhead - The Boss - woman talks about sleeping with her boss - sexual poses and seductive voice
Dismissed TV - Pay 11/09/2007
September 1999
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286-99 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Ford - Falcon S - "Couple on beach - perfume 'Attraction'"
Dismissed 14/09/1999
June 2005
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150-05 Goodman Fielder Limited
Goodman Fielder - Country Cup - shows a masked male robber being beaten by a female security guard
Dismissed 14/06/2005
March 2000
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29-00 Schweppes Cottee's
Schweppes Cottee's - Solo - Outdoor - 'After Clocking Off, Knock One Off'
Dismissed Outdoor 14/03/2000
June 2007
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153-07 Lowenbrau Keller
Lowenbrau Keller - woman in German costume with low-cut cleavage holding 2 steins of beer as man looks down front of her dress at her breasts "We love working here"
Dismissed Transport 12/06/2007
168-07 Olympus Imaging Aust Pty Ltd
Olympus - e410Camera - man photographing his kids at beach using camera, and focuses on two bikini-clad girls. When their boyfriends confont him he hides the camera down his shorts and points to a Japanese tourist as the culprit
Dismissed 12/06/2007
October 2005
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295-05 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
Mitsubishi - Lancer - driver & passenger being thrust backward through seats as a result of fast acceleration
Dismissed 11/10/2005
May 2008
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170-08 Refine Cosmetic Clinic
Refine Cosmetics Clinic - topless woman advertising breast enlargement
Dismissed 19/05/2008
October 2007
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315-07 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
Mitsubishi - Triton - driver of automatic car has a hand free to grab the neck of his passenger, whose singing he doesn't like
Dismissed Radio 09/10/2007
September 2008
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327-08 Hyundai Motor Company Australia Pty Ltd
Hyundai - iLoad - tradesman is asked about the van - bleeped out swear words
Dismissed Radio 10/09/2008
December 2004
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330-04 Peter Brown Auto Electrics
Peter Brown Auto Electrics - "turning hot pussies into cool cats" - car air conditioning
Dismissed 07/12/2004
October 2003
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334-03 Goodman Fielder Baking Australia
Goodman Fielder - Wonderwhite - skeleton family.
Dismissed 14/10/2003
362-03 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
Mitsubishi - Magna - Red & silver cars shown with no number plates - 'We didn't stop at ----'
Dismissed 14/10/2003
September 2008
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340-08 Advanced Medical Institute
AMI - shop-a-docket - "Men - you can last longer! Nasal Delivery Technology. Call the doctors at AMI to enquire about longer lasting love making - with coloured image of a man and woman in bed smiling
Dismissed Print 16/09/2008
December 2005
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344-05 Radio Rentals Ltd
Radio Rentals - "shagged furniture" shows mattress simulating sex
Dismissed Outdoor 13/12/2005
February 2005
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355-04 Honda Australia Pty Ltd
Honda - car travelling at high speed on winding roads, on wrong side of road, sound of high pitched racing car
Dismissed 08/02/2005
November 2003
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370-03 Lexus Australia
Lexus - IS200 - comparison with speed of hummingbird's wings.
Dismissed Print 11/11/2003
381-03 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
Toyota - Hilux 4WD - young man on escalator wearing t-shirt with "Wordl's Best Street Fighter" taunted by gang going in opposite direction. Rear of t-shirt reads "you'll think you're unbreakable"
Dismissed 11/11/2003
February 2001
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374-00 Bartesa Pty Ltd
Bartesa Pty Ltd - Weeman Little Boy's Toilet Trainer
Dismissed Print 13/02/2001
November 2007
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390-07 BMW Group Australia Ltd
BMW - M3 Outdoor - "It's not how fast you go. It's how you go fast".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Outdoor 13/11/2007
December 1999
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404-99 Kraft Foods Ltd
Kraft Foods - mayonnaise - John Paul Young in restaurant with singing chef
Dismissed 07/12/1999
February 2007
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41-07 Holy Sheet
Holy Sheet - innuendo of "shit"
Dismissed Radio 13/02/2007
5-07 Just Fitness
Just Fitness - woman standing on forklift pallet in warehouse
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued 13/02/2007
October 2008
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420-08 Jamba! GmbH
Jamba - Bubblemob - Simulated Lesbian Sex - "Diana fiddling with herself" and other images with explicit detail blocked out
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued TV - Pay 30/10/2008
January 2008
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428-07 Goodyear Tyres
Goodyear Tyres - Dunlop - V8 Supercar footage followed by car weaving across road as in racing laps "what we learn on the track we take to the street"
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued 16/01/2008
449-07 Bridgestone Tyres Australia Ltd
Bridgestone - Turanza Tyres - father pacifies crying child by taking it on a drive
Dismissed 16/01/2008
February 2004
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454-03 Pizza Haven
Pizza Haven - women in swimsuits - men say "can't believe we picked them up so cheap"
Dismissed 17/02/2004
February 2009
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49-09 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
Toyota - Corolla driven in unsafe manner by guy with "kitten head" who assaults other kitten head drivers
Dismissed 11/02/2009
June 1999
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183-99 Nissan Motor Co (Aust) Pty Ltd
Nissan - "New Patrol 4.2 litre Turbo Diesel"
Dismissed 08/06/1999
August 2002
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190-01 Nestle Australia Ltd
Nestle - Zone Mints - Female reporter interviewing male basketball player who is staring at her breasts
Dismissed 12/08/2002
July 2007
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193-07 Sydney Breast Enlargement & Cosmetic Surgery
Sydney Breast Enlargement & Cosmetic Centre - flabby unsightly floppy stomachs
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Radio 10/07/2007
March 2008
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56-08 Service Central (Aust) Pty Ltd
Service Central - man and woman pouring chocolate over each other and rolling around while someone cleans carpet
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued 12/03/2008
July 2003
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197-03 Ceramic World & Home Improvement Centre
Ceramic World - 'Why settle for inferior Asian tiles?'
Dismissed Radio 08/07/2003
December 2009
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579-09 Albury Hobby Centre
Albury Hobby Centre 579 09 - TV. Man talking to young children and uses the term "çhoking the chicken"
Dismissed 09/12/2009

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