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E.g., 13/08/2022
July 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0253-14 Cantarella Group
The advertisement features a young boy talking to the camera about drinking good coffee. He says that he is only allowed one per day so it better be a good one. The boy is an actor from Modern Family (Rico Rodriguez) who plays the character of Manny in the show.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0256-14 Knauf Insulation Ltd
It shows people receiving and then installing earthwool Insulation in their home.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0257-14 Wendy's Supa Sundaes Pty Ltd
It is an ad for Wendys Hot dogs and Icecream. It says Wendys yum yum.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0259-14 Warner Music Aust Pty Ltd
The ad is for the latest 100% HITS album. During the ad a young lady does a cartwheel naked.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0260-14 COUGARLIFE.COM
A man approaches a woman at a desk, I think she's a lowly receptionist, and he asks her if he knows her. She says something like yes I was your professor at university. They end up having sex. I think she actually bakes him a pie. A shot of the website shows a lady cougar filling out a profile. She's a whopping 34 years old.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0263-14 Woolworths Supermarkets
The ad has a take on Austin Powers with young kids dressed up as Mini Me and the like.A stuffed animal is shown in a chair ... which gets blown up.The lead role speaks like Mini Me and has the same aggressive characters as the Austin Powers movies. The other kids in view are also dressed and acting out in this manner.The purpose of the commercial is to sell toys ... okay?
Dismissed Toys and Games TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0264-14 Virgin Money (Australia) Pty Limited
It was advertising Virgin income insurance.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
0265-14 Chloe Perfume
Young girl rolling around on a bed & naked in a bath listening to a phone message from an older gentleman. requesting her to pick up the phone.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 23/07/2014
June 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0253-15 Fantastic Snacks Australia
Delites chips ad, husband eats some chips, wife decides to lick his lips/face in order to establish what the flavor/taste is.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
0254-15 Jim's Mowing SA
The cartoon version of Jim's Mowing and garden maintenance.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 24/06/2015
June 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0253-17 The Salvation Army
Salvation Army appeal help victims of domestic violence. Mother has been visible bruised on face and has had to sleep in car and it is raining. Sound of rain wasn't what she remembered
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
0257-17 Clarity Hearing Solutions
The ad is for a Hearing Aid company. It demonstrates the frustration in a domestic situation when a person's deteriorating hearing is mistaken for 'selective hearing'.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Professional Services TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
0263-17 Sportsbet
The current advertising slogan and contents of SportsBet ad to promote the Android app. The ad uses the slogan 'putting the 'roid' in Android' and proceeds to show weight lifters as people who have or are perceived to have used performance enhancing drugs.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Gambling TV - Free to Air 07/06/2017
May 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0254-18 Skoda
Skoda SU adFamily driving around with young daughter (maybe 9 or 10 yo) singing Black Velvet. She transforms from hair tied up to releasing her hair and shaking it around in slow motion to lyrics that include "black velvet in that little boys smile, black in that slow southern style . Black velvet that will bring you to our knees."
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 23/05/2018
June 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0256-16 Sanitarium Health Food Company
Customer picked iced coffee instead of up and go.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0258-16 Mars Confectionery
A woman is sitting on a couch, and says to a man "I feel like a snack".The man says "Yeah" and goes to the kitchen and opens a cupboard.He is then repeatedly hit in the head by a number of objects that are thrown out of the cupboard.The camera then shows what are supposed to be M&M chocolates in the cupboard that are holding objects that they are about to throw.The man says "Get in the bowl", and the M&M chocolates in the cupboard say "You get in the bowl".The M&M chocolates in the cupboard then throw another object that hits the man in the h
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0260-16 HTH Group
Home Hardware - a guy comes on telling the tradies on site they're all soft because they eat cup cakes and that they need to harden up like real tradies
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
0261-16 HTH Group
Home Hardware - a guy comes on telling the tradies on site they're all soft because they have scented candles and toilet paper that they need to harden up like real tradies
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 08/06/2016
June 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0256-18 Jaguar Land Rover Australia Pty Ltd
My reason for complaining is safety. The public is told over and over about the dangers of driving through flood waters, but the land Rover Discovery advertisements recommend exactly that. "Through rivers deep" is the wording I complain about.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0257-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The adult (man) & child are in a workshop building something. The man hammers his finger accidentally and it implies that he swears in front of the child. He then is putting money in a jar labelled “swear jar”. He then takes his child to buy McDonald's with the rewards of coins from all the swearing he’s done.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0258-18 Woolworths Supermarkets
A father and his 3 children are driving to the shops. 1 of his children appears to be a teenager, 1 a tween and the other is younger than the tween. The kids are asking Dad to buy things at Woolworths. The youngest child asks for more eggs as he's making crocodiles out of the cartons.The next and final scene is Dad bringing the groceries back to the car. The 3 children are in the car. The youngest child asks his Dad if he remembered to buy the eggs. This implies that he wasn't shopping with his father and that the children were left in the car.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0259-18 ALDI Australia
An approximately 7 second long ALDI corned beef commercial, with the food product in question being 'sliced' alongside accompanying 'slicing' sound effects. The red price tag was displayed on the right hand side of the screen and there was a female voice-over
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0260-18 Gnomes
The use of innuendo via the use of an actor with a NZ accent to describe his "coloured deck". Both actors look in the direction of the NZ actors groin after the second actor makes the statement of "nice deck". The reply, again with legs apart, is that it is a "coloured deck" and he then displays a big smile. Only blind freddy would not hear the word 'deck' as 'dick' due to the NZ accent.
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0261-18 Nissan Motor Co (Aust) Pty Ltd
The advertisement is a series of shots of a woman going about her daily business, all the while being bombarded with input from other people in her day to day life. The footage then shifts to her driving a Nissan SUV.The video is available in full on the Nissan youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg0zkBK_AEM
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0263-18 Charli & Kate
I don’t know exactly what is was advertising, hair product. It showed attractive girls dancing around, showing a lot of cleavage. It’s very sexualised.
Dismissed Beauty Salon TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0264-18 Transport for NSW
The ad's slogan is Yeah, Nah and depicts a driver making a last minute decision to overtake a truck, before crashing into an oncoming vehicle with a family in it.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0265-18 Underworks
An overtly sexual and demeaning representation of a woman semi clad including her spreading her legs in a full wide open croutch shot. Completely unnecessary and offensive to me and my 12 year old child.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0268-18 Unilever Australasia
The advert depicts a black African woman working on a tea plantation, then a group of white people drinking tea.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
0270-18 DPP Pharmaceuticals
A blonde and red -headed family dressed mostly in white and light blue has a man intrude on their house to steal their stuff (and soap). He is dressed in all black and is Asian. Cliched much?
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 06/06/2018
July 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0258-15 AHM Health Insurance
I would like to complain about the AHM insurance ad.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0261-15 L'Oreal Australia Pty Ltd
My complaint is specifically directed at the catch phrase "F n L" pronounced "effen ell" - and as EVERYONE knows that is "polite" for "f*cking hell*.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Toiletries TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0262-15 Nestle Australia Ltd
Kit Kat advertisement about "having a break" shows a lady secretly having a Kit Kat under a tree when she is meant to be out running.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0264-15 Red Bull Aust Pty Ltd
The latest advertising campaign for Red Bull energy drink with cartoon characters suggesting you will be more attractive if you drink red bull
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0266-15 Nissan Motor Co (Aust) Pty Ltd
Commercial centred on the release of a new Nissan 4x4 utility vehicle, where it drove through a large pipe that was not restrained properly to a semi-trailer, falling off onto the ground.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0267-15 Mars Confectionery
2 women eating maltesers in an office setting. One of the women lifts her top to reveal her bra to a male colleague
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0269-15 GlaxoSmithKline Australia Pty Ltd
Panadol
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0270-15 Aldi Australia
The Aldi advert of a man in a chicken suit falling off a chair and using offensive language (taking Jesus Christ name in vain).
Dismissed Retail TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0272-15 Crazy Domains
Set in a massage room, with the masseuse being a male dressed as a female (in no way is that the reason for my complaint)
Dismissed Information Technology TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
0273-15 Yum Restaurants International
Sexualized food, portrayed as erection of bacom resulting in pizza huts "love "child. Illegitimate child.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/07/2015
June 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0262-16 Isuzu UTE Australia Pty Ltd
The driver of the car is saying how wonderful it is to get away from "the worst apprentice".
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 22/06/2016
0263-16 Anyinginyi
There are many parents on the North Shore Of Sydney and the Outer Western Suburbs of ALL Ethnicity's, who have this F.A.S.D ,
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 22/06/2016
0266-16 Roadshow Film Distributors Pty Ltd
Horror and supernatural themes, advertising for a coming soon movie, The Conjuring 2.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 22/06/2016
0268-16 GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Australia
Advertising Panadol for children
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 22/06/2016
0271-16 Motor Accident Commission SA
It was an anti drug driving ad.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 22/06/2016
0272-16 KIA Automotive Australia
The man in red KIA car is reversing free hands and waves to a girl being carried by a man.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 22/06/2016
August 2014
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0269-14 Ambience Air
Air conditioning installation
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 13/08/2014
0272-14 Lion
The advertisement shows a cow eating pasture and producing milk. That is not the issue! The claim is made that Pura milk contains A2 protein.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 13/08/2014
June 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0271-17 Smart Homes for Living
A middle aged woman getting lost in the house after going to the bathroom as the house is so big. She needs to call on her mobile to her son to get directions and apologises for getting lost near the second bathroom while others laugh at her
Dismissed Real Estate TV - Free to Air 21/06/2017
0272-17 ATA Allstar Artists Pty Ltd
The advertisement is for a sensual cabaret from France coming to Melbourne to perform. The ad is quite sensual in content both in the way it is voiced and in the imagery.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 21/06/2017
June 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0272-18 Reckitt Benckiser (Aust) Pty Ltd
Dettol spray ad that has a frog in a jar.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 20/06/2018

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