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E.g., 26/06/2022
E.g., 26/06/2022
February 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0039-19 Subway Franchisee Advertising Fund
The advertisement featured two women who appeared to be on tinder only for it to be revealed that they were swiping right on subs. It suggested that some subs were better then others and encouraged consumers to find a product that it a ‘match’ for them.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
0040-19 Suzuki Australia Pty Limited
Advertisement for Suzuki Vitara.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
0042-19 McDonald's Aust Ltd
Advertisement promoting "double up" of main ingredients.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
0043-19 Uber
Tennis stars advertising Uber Eats
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
0044-19 Mars Wrigley Confectionery
Ad for Wrigley's chewing gum that features one boy pushing another boy up against the wall.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
0046-19 Parfums Christian Dior
Perfume advertisement for Dior featuring Charlize Theron.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
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
February 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0040-16 Ultra Tune Australia
Ultra Tune selling their services by portraying 2 women in cars in 'unexpected' situations from driving off a cliff instead of reversing.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 10/02/2016
February 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0042-15 Country Racing Victoria
I have a concern with a current advertisement being aired by your channel over recent weeks. I refer to the linking of children to Country Racing as an enjoyable event. The aim, in my opinion, is for children to encourage parents to take them to Country Horse Racing Events or, to promote the entertainment focussing on children's attractions and enjoyment. The horse racing and associated gambling and betting, which will ensue from accompanying adults, is a secondary, but important, issue related to the advertising.
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 25/02/2015
0043-15 Toppik
Adding product to hair to give thickness and volume.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 25/02/2015
0047-15 Universal Pictures
My 4 and 6 year old children watch the Australian Open together with me, during daytime; yet every 5 minutes during the advertisement breaks I need to send them out /switch off due to 18+ material being promoted incl home and away, Fifty shades of grey - movie promotion. The advertisement is hugely tasteless and unnecessary for myself not mentioning for any young children; not mentioning disappointing during a public holiday and daytime while trying to encourage my children to enjoy the family tennis viewing!  
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 25/02/2015
February 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
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
0045-17 Ultra Tune Australia
1: Women approaching a car at night, they are approached by a group of men asking about car troubles, a martial arts star appears and the group of men take photos with him.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0047-17 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Woman driving on wet road with children in car .
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0049-17 Department of Premier and Cabinet (Victoria)
It was about family violence when the dad spends the day with his son and then gets home and almost trips on the sons toy. He then proceeds to go find the mother and yell and abuse her with the son watching.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0052-17 Universal Pictures
This is an ad for a movie called 'Split' that is about to begin in cinemas. It is the story of a man with spilt personalities who kidnaps, tortures, kiss young girls.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0053-17 Coles
A group of people are sharing alcohol around a BBQ, followed by Liquorland promotion for wolf blass.
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0054-17 Trelly's Tackle World Shepparton
Advertising fishing and camping products with emphasis on Australia Day
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Retail TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0055-17 The BOSS Shop
Ad describes various products and services they provide.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0056-17 Mercedes-Benz Aust/Pacific P/L
The advertisement was promoting a Mercedes Benz sale
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
0057-17 McDonald's Aust Ltd
Inside an office a woman and man are behind the desk. The man is eating a brown bread sandwich, the woman is eating a strop and whipped butter covered set of pancakes. The woman looks very happy eating the pancakes, over the moon. The man looks at her and sad to the brown (healthy) sandwich.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/02/2017
February 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0043-18 The Local Shack
A young man sitting at a table, possibly on a first date, meets with somebody wearing a dress. The man asks if they want to play a game and the person in the dress is revealed to have a masculine sounding voice, to which the man is surprised.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 07/02/2018
0046-18 Sydney Festival
The promotional advertising for live show - Riot.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 07/02/2018
0048-18 Bosch
Male tries to measure how much liquid to use in the washing machine. Young teen daughter shows him how to add liquid to machine.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 07/02/2018
0052-18 Pretty Little Thing
It is disgusting and offensive the advertisement is based on 'sexual lust' . polluting our society in particular children and youth . 
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 07/02/2018
February 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0044-16 Sportsbet
A group of men are in a pub and one of them is betting on his phone. At the end of the ad, thanks to some gambling success, the men embrace. A voiceover says words like "that's enough of that", and the men look sheepish and recoil from one another.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 24/02/2016
0045-16 Smith's Snackfood Co Ltd The
A maintence guy attends an old woman's residence to fix her stair lift, the man opens a bag of chips and leaves them on his tool box. The old lady try's to steal a chip, and the man kicks the tool box, hurting the old lady's hand. The lady then presses a button sending the maintence man shooting up the stairs on the lift, out of the window.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/02/2016
0046-16 World Animal Protection
This advertisement is too raise money to assist in reducing animal cruelty such as showing tigers and elephants being beaten in order for tourists to take pictures, ride them etc
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 24/02/2016
0047-16 Youi Car Insurance
Ppecific Youi ad. The Presenter of the ad walks across a floor of a studio with dozens of unsafe electrical cables strewn across the floor as he talks about Youi products.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 24/02/2016
March 2015
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0045-15 AICS
Advertisement features female presenter announcing "don't suffer from someone else's negligence" and shows a vehicle travelling along the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the female driver of the vehicle texting on her mobile phone.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 11/03/2015
0056-15 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
Ford tv commercial advertising the plate run out sale
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 11/03/2015
0060-15 Comparethemarket.com.au
Television commercial featuring meerkats.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 11/03/2015
0061-15 iSelect Pty Ltd
iSelect health insurance advert which includes a QANTAS frequent flyer double points promotion.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 11/03/2015
February 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0045-18 Bras n' Things
It was at least 30seconds of multiple women in various kinds of lingerie in full light with body shots of every part.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 21/02/2018
0047-18 Youfoodz
Right at the end, you find out that YouFoodz is advertising their food. Not that it's clear until the end....
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 21/02/2018
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
0053-18 KIA Automotive Australia
Towards the end of the ad spot, the Apple CarPlay screen was shown whilst the car is driving, and the driver’s finger is seen swiping the screen whilst the car is moving.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 21/02/2018
0054-18 KIA Automotive Australia
Kia Stinger being driving very quickly on a circuit deviating along a white curved line. It suggests the car holds to Road when driving quickly.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 21/02/2018
0059-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The television commercial showed 3 people using the same trampoline at the same time.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 21/02/2018
0062-18 Coca-Cola South Pacific
The ad entails a young man and a young woman jumping off a cliff into water below.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 21/02/2018
March 2016
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0049-16 Chrysler Australia Pty Ltd
A man standing in a room getting ready to have a sexual interlude pops a blue pill out of a bottle, which he looses out the window and despairs over it, the pill rolls on and falls into a parked car which then grows much larger and a passerby makes some remarks.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 09/03/2016
0058-16 Pharmacare Laboratories
Various pack shots of the 'Skinny' weight loss products with clips of skinny/very slim women dancing around (some of whom are sipping drinks from a straw) and male voices in the background singing 'I love em, I love em, I love em... skinny' repeated over and over.
Dismissed Slimming TV - Free to Air 09/03/2016
0062-16 Medibank Private Ltd
It showed diferent categories of people who could join Medibank
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 09/03/2016
March 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0055-19 Samsung Electronics Aust Pty Ltd
A part of the ad shows a couple using a smartphone as a sonography app. 
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 06/03/2019
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
0058-19 Molemap
The advertisement is brief, with narration asking the audience if they have ever been sunburnt or considered skin cancer. Moles are showed an question marks and the narrator suggests getting a mole map.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 06/03/2019
0060-19 Yum Restaurants International
TVC featured a school play, parents in the audience were bored of the kids performance, teenager shows mum an ad on her phone with KFC deal and mum shouts out 'shut up and take my money', next scene they were seating KFC whilst upset children look on.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 06/03/2019
February 2017
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Mediasort ascending Determination date
0060-17 Australian Football League
Women's Australian League Football "I'd like to see that" commercial
Dismissed Sport and Leisure TV - Free to Air 22/02/2017
0061-17 KIA Automotive Australia
The ad shows a variety of Kia vehicles that are on special.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 22/02/2017
0062-17 Hollard Insurance Company
Real Pay As You Drive Insurance – If Only. TVC.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 22/02/2017

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