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E.g., 25/02/2021
June 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0154-19 Bakers Delight
Poster advertising featuring naked women holding baked goods in front of their chests.
Dismissed Community Awareness Poster 12/06/2019
0162-19 Ford Motor Co of Aust Ltd
The New Ford Mustang. Features Tara Moss.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0161-19 Centrefold Lounge/Men's Gallery
Advertisement states 'choose over 100 women' at the Centerfold Lounge
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0146-19 iSelect Pty Ltd
A man and a woman are looking at one of their bills. Another man appears and stabs the bill out of the lady's hand. He then puts the bill (still on the knife) into his mouth, pulls it out with multiple papers on it and then shoots fire from his mouth. Burning the papers leaving just one paper not burned.
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0153-19 Soul Origin
“Hearty A.F. Soups” Ask us about today’s varieties. (Pricing and size options attached)
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue Poster 12/06/2019
0171-19 SA Health
Television advertisement showing a woman Terrie giving tips as to how to get ready. 
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0160-19 Suzuki Australia Pty Limited
Advertisement for Suzuki with the slogan ‘for fun’s sake’. The ad features a car careering through water and mud, and circling a suburban roundabout. The ad begins by talking about driverless vehicles.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0145-19 BizCover
It is an insurance ad for bizcover.
Dismissed Insurance Radio 12/06/2019
0152-19 Sony Music Entertainment Australia Ltd
An ad for Beyoncé’s homecoming album and the Ad is of her dancing.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0170-19 Shiploads
It was an advert stating that shiploads are selling track pants. Half way through the advertisement a man is depicted with a pair of track pants pulled up to his stomach with no t-shirt on. Also depicted is a man with no shirt and the Shiploads logo in the front of his pants, and when the logo is removed blurring is visible at the top of his pants. 
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0144-19 Ovo Mobile
A transport advertisement which features wording: "A telco that gives an F*?"
Dismissed Telecommunications Transport 12/06/2019
0151-19 Lottoland
A woman enters a room with bags hanging off arms. A man is sleeping on a couch. She says "pack your bags! I've won the lottoland jackpot". He then says "awesome where are we going?" She says, "nowhere. Just be gone by midday".
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0169-19 Love Honey
Television advertisment for Love Honey. 
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 12/06/2019
0150-19 Honey Birdette
Fonda: woman in black hot pants suit with sheer black top and pasties covering nipples. Woman has hands on hip.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 12/06/2019
0158-19 Honey Birdette
“Penelope” - features two women in red 3 piece set, posed at a bar. One woman is seated and posed with elbows rested on bar. Woman is putting (presumably) an olive in her mouth. The second woman is standing next to & slightly behind first woman.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 12/06/2019
May 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0129-19 United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Charitable donation ad featuring depictions of war torn environment. 
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - On Demand 22/05/2019
0142-19 Honey Birdette
Lyndl: woman in red lace/sheer black bodysuit. 
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 22/05/2019
0134-19 Honey Birdette
Lyndal - 2 women posed in side embrace; one on left in 3 piece set; one on right in black and red bodysuit. Woman on left is leaning back into woman on right while woman on right is posed with arm forward and positioned on other woman’s upper thigh/hip.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 22/05/2019
0141-19 Honey Birdette
“Samantha” - a woman in multi-piece black lingerie including black dog-collar styled choker.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 22/05/2019
0140-19 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
The ad shows several vehicles travelling very close to each other on a gravel road, in a dusty situation in a forest.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 22/05/2019
0110-19 Sexyland
Showing sexual vibrators and referring to Easter
Dismissed Sex Industry Billboard 22/05/2019
0133-19 Procter & Gamble Australia Pty Ltd
Describes the benefit of using Metamucil. Contains the phrase "the turd you deserve". 
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 22/05/2019
0139-19 Sanofi
A poster that depicted a chaotic scene, with a woman with an open shirt and hamburgers on her breasts and a woman falling and her underwear showing.
Dismissed Community Awareness Poster 22/05/2019
0138-19 HSV
God was being used in the ad as calling upon a man to build an Ark.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Pay 22/05/2019
0125-19 Lumen
Billboard featuring several naked people holding signs which cover their private parts.
Dismissed Other Billboard 22/05/2019
0137-19 HSV
God was being used in the ad as calling upon a man to build an Ark.
Dismissed Vehicle Radio 22/05/2019
0130-19 Medownick Laser Clinic
There are a series of radio advertisements running for Medownick Laser Clinic where they reference a man losing / leaving his glasses behind somewhere, then go on to say there are better places to lose your glasses like Medownick Laser Clinic.One refers to a man who couldn’t find his glasses for a while and his female partner gives them back and says they were found in the back of a female friends car....Another is a shop announcement asking for the gentleman who left his glasses in the lingerie department to please collect them from lost property....
Dismissed Health Products Radio 22/05/2019
0135-19 Thorne Harbour Health
An ad for Hepatitis A infectious disease and immunization. It refers to men who have sex with men.
Dismissed Community Awareness App 22/05/2019
May 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0119-19 Best & Less
Ad for kids clothes, set to a party/nightclub theme. 
Dismissed Clothing TV - Free to Air 08/05/2019
0089-19 Touch Up Guys
A current ad 'The touch up guys" with the catch line...'Just don't let anyone touch you up' is for car repairs
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 08/05/2019
0115-19 Chatime
The series of Posters consist of a person drinking the drink with a caption - the captions is “what was you first time?  I can’t remember, I’ve had so many”.  
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue Transport 08/05/2019
0128-19 Sony Interactive Entertainment Australia Pty Ltd
It is for a game that says "one bullet left, who's it for?" With a lone player under attack with his comrades dead all around him. Then zombie monsters attack. 
Dismissed Entertainment TV - On Demand 08/05/2019
0118-19 Hanes Brands Inc
Dustin Martin is in bed with a girl and there is a knock at the door he answers the door to find reporters outside who ask if he had a good night. He closes the door and goes back to the girl in bed and says it’s for you.
Dismissed Clothing Internet - Social - Other 08/05/2019
0127-19 Carlton and United Breweries
A group of men drinking beer on a slither of sand between two rivers.
Dismissed Alcohol TV - Free to Air 08/05/2019
0114-19 Mitsubishi Motors Aust Ltd
This ad features a 4WD being driven all over the place dodging objects. 
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 08/05/2019
0126-19 Yum Restaurants International
Kfc $2 large chips the commercial where guy is at the school he is eating from a completely different larger kfc box which they don't sell.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 08/05/2019
0117-19 Ubisoft P/L
Three heavily armed figures holding high powered military grade weapons are shown as though the viewer is standing behind them. The scene is urban; that is, not a battlefield. The figure on the right seems to be firing into the window of a parked car. Text at the top reads: "15 March".
Dismissed Toys and Games Transport 08/05/2019
0113-19 Koala Sleep
Two women talkinhg about things that are good for your health like colonic treatments and the Koala mattress. One woman yells out "Jesus". 
Dismissed House Goods Services Radio 08/05/2019
0121-19 Roadshow Films
Poster for the film Hellboy, showing a demon with a gun
Dismissed Entertainment Outdoor 08/05/2019
0124-19 Honey Birdette
Product name: Victoria. Image of woman in 3-piece black lace lingerie (bra, knickers, garter belt). Knickers are sheer and have obviously been photoshopped to blur genitals. Women is posed sexually with legs spread, drawing attention to genital region.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 08/05/2019
0112-19 NEDS
Billboard that includes football cards and the words ‘inject a legend to boost your odds’
Dismissed Gambling Billboard 08/05/2019
0116-19 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The award provides a voucher for children to redeem a happy meal at McDonalds.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Venue Print 08/05/2019
0120-19 Wicked Campers
Slogan on van: "The difference between marmalade and jam is you can’t marmalade your cock down your girlfriends throat." VIC registration 1CZ 8N0
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 08/05/2019
0123-19 Honey Birdette
A billboard for the new store in Rundle Mall, featuring a woman in black lingerie.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Billboard 08/05/2019
April 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0102-19 Holden Ltd
People are seen fleeing a party with men in black chasing them. A red Holden Equinox is seen driving through the streets trying to escape riders on motor bikes. It's then seen driving through a container terminal. At one point, it is seen being reversed, then making what is described as a 180 (ie) where the vehicle makes a sudden 180 degree turn and faces the opposite direction.  
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Vehicle TV - Free to Air 17/04/2019
0111-19 Frucor Beverages Australia
Bus stop ad states "She's late". 
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries Outdoor 17/04/2019
0101-19 Myer Pty Ltd
A girl excitedly holding up her personalised Creme Egg tin filled with creme eggs (two bags of minis, one large creme egg)
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries Internet - Social - Facebook 17/04/2019
0106-19 Inspirations Paint
Television advertisement featuring a little girl flicking a spoonful of icecream into her grandmother's face so that she could be sent to her room to admire her new painted bedroom.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 17/04/2019
0105-19 Tabcorp Holdings Limited
The  advert features a woman being asked by her male partner to name the event and she is given a "Millionaires Hot Seat" type choice of 4 answers. All 4 answers are the same "The Championships" and the woman is shown having difficulty answering the question while at the same time others (men voices) are shouting her the answer. 
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 17/04/2019
0104-19 Chatime
Transport advertisement with a quote from someone drinking a Chatime beverage: "My first Cha Time..."The ball felt weird in my mouth".
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue Transport 17/04/2019

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