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| Ref# | Advertisement | Category | Determination |
Date |
Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0548-18 | Stephanie's Boutique Lingerie In the ad, there are multiple images of women in their underwear. | Lingerie | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0001-19 | Thomas Farms Kitchen The ads message was that the prepared meals were timesaving so texting your partner ‘What’s for dinner?” Was no longer necessary , leaving time for more important messages and The ad then ended by saying “wink emoji, eggplant, question mark” | Food/Bev Groceries | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | Radio |
| 0553-18 | Wicked Campers Wicked camper car with Catoons painted marked car with sexual slogan across the back written in bold print stating: ""I'm no Fred Flintstone but I can make your bedrock" | Travel | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | Transport |
| 0003-19 | Mars Wrigley Confectionery The ad has three women each eating Maltesers whilst describing their weekend. | Food/Bev Groceries | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0005-19 | Pretty Little Thing Young women dancing around in the street and rain to sell clothing. | Clothing | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Pay |
| 0011-19 | Booking.com Internation B.V. It shows people in different countries with accomodation. | Travel | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0013-19 | SsanngYong Ad shows a vehicle driving at speed into what is portrayed as sea water on a beach. | Vehicle | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0009-19 | Godfreys The advertisement was of a Godfreys warehouse sale which depicted several moving forklifts. | House Goods Services | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0021-19 | Yes Loans There are two television commercials. In each, a man addresses the camera and describes being left in financial difficulty due to the actions of his former female partner. | Finance/Investment | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0023-19 | McDonald's Aust Ltd McDonald's advertising the new 36 flavour frozen fantas. | Food/Bev Venue | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0541-18 | Yum Restaurants International There is a child sitting with some kfc and a voice over that says something like "sometimes you just have to say bucket" | Food/Bev Venue | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | App |
| 0549-18 | Narbil Training 2 guys talking to each other, one guy uses an insult to the other guy by calling him a “deadset ranga” because he didn’t understand what he was saying about him wanting training and they work at a training placeThe offended guy objects to being called a ranga because he doesn’t have red hair | Education | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | Radio |
| 0019-19 | ACON Inc. Billboard with two people on top of each other, on a bed, without clothing. Text encouraging people to get tested for HIV, including the phrase "we test". | Community Awareness | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | Billboard |
| 0017-19 | Museum of Old and New Art Television advertisement for MONA exhibition. | Entertainment | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0542-18 | Yum Restaurants International BucketLive a little | Food/Bev Venue | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | Transport |
| 0546-18 | McDonald's Aust Ltd McRib advertised by McDonalds - Two children eating McRib's at the beach with a voice overlay as a man walks past in speedos. | Food/Bev Venue | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | TV-Free to air |
| 0550-18 | Insight Timer Insight Timer, a global meditation app posts regular feel-good quotes on Instagram to inspire users. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq1ZtQuBjU_/ | Health Products | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | Internet-Social-Instagram |
| 0511-18 | Mars Wrigley Confectionery I have to watch an “m&m’s makes movies” advertisement that shows a man following a woman that implies the abduction of the woman by the man who drives away in a car when I go to the cinema. | Food/Bev Groceries | Dismissed | 23/01/2019 | Cinema |
| 0518-18 | Telstra Corporation Ltd Many gadgets for christmas. Use of drone by children too close to parents kissing under mistletoe. | Telecommunications | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0515-18 | Munchkin Inc The ad shows cows roaming free and the manufacturer is saying their formula is 100% grass fed cows. But it’s insinuating that the cows shown are the cows that the milk is from. When in actual fact the milk comes from cows that are mass produced and are used and abused. They are impregnated with a rape tools and are not happy and free roaming cows as per portrayed. | Food/Bev Groceries | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0533-18 | Yum Restaurants International The advert shows a child at a dinner table. He is playing with the food while an older adult watches on. Person comes in with large bucket of KFC. Child says "bucket" and grabs the KFC out of the bucket | Food/Bev Venue | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | TV-Pay |
| 0512-18 | Remedy Kombucha Pty Ltd Enormous sign around building facing both Springvale Rd. & High St.Road with the word GET FRUCT. | Food/Bev Groceries | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | Billboard |
| 0519-18 | World Animal Protection Encouraging viewers to help protect abused animals by showing footage of animals including bears, elephants and dogs being treated cruelly. | Community Awareness | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0537-18 | The Firm Gentlemens Club Creative execution displaying women with very little clothing, along with the copy, "The Firm. Buck's Nights". | Sex Industry | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | Poster |
| 0534-18 | Sports Locker Picture of a male using his middle finger at the front of the store. | Retail | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | Poster |
| 0531-18 | Carlton and United Breweries Television advertisement depicting a woman as a beer. Shows her in an esky. | Alcohol | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0513-18 | Skoda The lyrics of the song on the ad ("Stone Cold Classic" by AKA George) includes the line "I goddamn have it" | Vehicle | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0538-18 | Crazy Horse Revue Pty Ltd Creative execution displaying women with very little clothing, along with the copy, "Crazy Horse. Buck's Night". | Sex Industry | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | Poster |
| 0524-18 | Grill'd The ad makes reference to a Motherfaker and Motherlover, too obviously close to being a Motherfucker. | Food/Bev Venue | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | Poster |
| 0535-18 | Honey Birdette Advertisement with a woman in white lingerie and the text "Leave Santa a treat" - Jessica Set | Lingerie | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | Poster |
| 0539-18 | David Jones Ltd Large photo of a lady wearing a bra and pants only. | Lingerie | Dismissed | 12/12/2018 | Transport |
| 0502-18 | Carlton and United Breweries A Yak is wading in water at the beach with exposed hindquarters facing the viewers. The hindquarters look like human female buttocks. The caption says something like “its getting wild out here” | Alcohol | Dismissed | 28/11/2018 | Billboard |
| 0521-18 | Cotton On Women wearing pink bra and g string - life size pictures. frontal view and large view from rear of bent over bottom. | Clothing | Dismissed | 28/11/2018 | Poster |
| 0514-18 | BizCover This ad shows a dirty and neglected foot with severely overgrown pixelated toenails which are in the process of being clipped. The intended message being rather than watching something like this one should go to Bizcover's website and make us of their products. | Finance/Investment | Dismissed | 28/11/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0509-18 | Hanes Brands Inc Bonds television advertisement featuring an Australian white Christmas. | Lingerie | Dismissed | 28/11/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0505-18 | Carlton and United Breweries An adult male is used to represent a bottle of Carlton Dry. He is taken from a beer fridge and slid across a bar to a customer. The customer then walks through the bar carrying the male as if he was a bottle of beer. They pass a 'stereotypical' German in Bavarian costume to highlight the difference in the beers. | Alcohol | Dismissed | 28/11/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0507-18 | Department of Social Services A Father, Young son and daughter are in a car and the son mentions detention for lifting a girls skirt. The father makes a comment in disbelief. The little girl then speaks about how she is already going to accept that in the future she will be harassed and possibly abused. | Community Awareness | Dismissed | 28/11/2018 | TV-Free to air |
| 0501-18 | Sportsbet Provides information on how to place a bet on footy and horse racing. Features the phrase 'BS Responsibly" | Gambling | Dismissed | 28/11/2018 | TV-Pay |
| 0499-18 | Grill'd The ad depicts a burger bordered with tomato vines. The caption to the image is "Don't be a motherfaker. Eat like a motherlover." | Food/Bev Venue | Dismissed | 28/11/2018 | Internet-Social-Instagram |
| Ref# | Advertisement | Category | Determination |
Date |
Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0554-18 | Kittens A black bus with blacked out windows. On the back of the bus, there was a large colour photo of a group of women dressed in lingerie in sexually provocative poses. Along the side of the bus, there was another large image of a woman dressed in lingerie reclining on her back with her knees bent. | Sex Industry | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 23/01/2019 | Transport |
| 0002-19 | Wicked Campers Wicked camper van with SA registration S 799 BAC with the slogan “masturbation is the only thing that isn’t taxed, regulated or illegal. That’s your "freedom". You’re free to go fuck yourself...” on the back of the van and the words 'Bukowski Some people never go crazy. What truely horrible lives they must lead", on the side of the van with a cartoon image of a man lighting a cigarette. | Travel | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 23/01/2019 | Transport |
| 0532-18 | Wicked Campers Wicked van with QLD registration "229XUM'. Text states "You're not a woman until humans come out of your vagina and trample on your dreams". | Travel | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 12/12/2018 | Transport |
| 0498-18 | Kittens The billboard is of a young women who is in her underwear in a sexually explicit pose supposedly offering to wash your car. | Sex Industry | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 12/12/2018 | Billboard |
| 0536-18 | Honey Birdette Woman in red one piece underwear with the text "Unwrap me" - Chloe Bodysuit | Lingerie | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 12/12/2018 | Poster |
| 0522-18 | Wicked Campers The Wicked camper vehicle with SA registration S646BTA had the slogan "Would a man know his way around a woman's clitoris....even if he had a GPS?" | Travel | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 12/12/2018 | Transport |
| 0530-18 | Wicked Campers Wicked van with SA registration "S604BTD". Text states "Lets play a game of fuck-off. You go first" | Travel | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 12/12/2018 | Transport |
| 0525-18 | Honey Birdette Poster featuring a reclining model in a sleigh wearing lingerie with large slogan TAKE A RIDE and smaller print Honey B's guide to Christmas. Displayed in front store window in a family thoroughfare. Madame Set. | Lingerie | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 28/11/2018 | Poster |
| 0527-18 | Honey Birdette A woman wearing a black bodysuit (Luna Bodysuit). Material is very sheer across the pubic region. | Lingerie | Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued | 28/11/2018 | Poster |
| Ref# | Advertisement | Category | Determination |
Date |
Media |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0529-18 | Gun World Australia It is a large billboard featuring a hand gun wrapped in Christmas paper under a Christmas tree with the slogan "Whats under your tree this Christmas" It also features a target with an outline of Australia. | Sport and Leisure | Upheld - Modified or Discontinued | 12/12/2018 | Billboard |
| 0503-18 | Bras n' Things The shop was in the shopping centre and had a large poster covering the window with three women in their underwear. | Lingerie | Upheld - Modified or Discontinued | 28/11/2018 | Poster |