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July 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0236-19 Yum Restaurants International
This television advertisement depicts a woman entering a room at the same time as a man opens a bottle of wine and the cork hits her in the face displacing her glasses a little. An embarrassing silence then ensues and the man says, 'did anyone say KFC?'
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 24/07/2019
0224-19 Global Shop Direct
This television advertisement is for a product which is designed to fix phone onto car dash.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Automotive TV - Pay 24/07/2019
0238-19 Honey Birdette
Image is an close up of woman’s face and breasts. Woman is wearing something made of sheer, navy coloured fabric. Product is named Belinda.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Out of Home 24/07/2019
0228-19 The Palace
This TV Out of Home advertisement for a gentleman's club depicts three static images on rotation.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Sex Industry TV - Out of Home 24/07/2019
0237-19 Brand Developers
This television advertisement is an infomercial for an infrared wall heater which aired in a breakfast program.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 24/07/2019
0232-19 Tasmanian Bakeries
This television advertisement depicts a car doing multiple laps of a city block and shows a woman hanging out the window. Voiceover also states to "stick a pie in your national pie hole".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/07/2019
0239-19 Honey Birdette
TV OOH advertisement which features a fast moving video montage of still images of a woman in lingerie. The lingerie is an Alina body suit which has sheer fabric between leather straps.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie TV - Out of Home 24/07/2019
0225-19 Minerals Council of Australia
This television advertisement related to rehabilitating land after mining.
Dismissed Other TV - Free to Air 24/07/2019
0226-19 Cece Crash Repairs
This advertisement depicts the text "RIM JOBS...Colour changes and repairs to your damaged rims". Two images of wheels are ncluded, one with a winking face emoji and one with a tongue oout emoji in the centre of the wheel.
Dismissed Automotive Poster 24/07/2019
0230-19 Wicked Campers
This transport advertisement is for a moving van and features text on the side and rear of the van and the word "cunt". WA Registration number 1DMW 607.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 24/07/2019
0231-19 Wicked Campers
This transport advertisement is for a moving van and features text on the side and rear of the van and the word "cunt". Victorian Registration number UMJ530.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 24/07/2019
0233-19 Primo Foods
This television advertisement features a jingle about what meat to eat each day of the week.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 24/07/2019
July 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0209-19 Roadshow Films
This television advertisement is for the movie 'Child's Play'.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0220-19 Honey Birdette
Brunette woman in black lace lingerie. Women is shown from lips down.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 10/07/2019
0196-19 Roadshow Films
Large billboard with possessed and scary looking doll on a black and red background with the words Annabelle Comes Back.
Dismissed Entertainment Billboard 10/07/2019
0210-19 Roadshow Films
Television advertisement for movie "Annabelle Comes Home" 
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0221-19 Honey Birdette
Image of blonde women shown from lips down, in red bra, garter belt, sheer underwear and stocking
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 10/07/2019
0197-19 Australian Pensioners Insurance Agency
Television ad for APIA insurance
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0211-19 Roadshow Films
Bus advertisement/billboard promoting film Annabelle comes home
Dismissed Entertainment Transport 10/07/2019
0222-19 Honey Birdette
Blonde woman in white lace bra, panties, garter belt and stockings. Woman is shown from lips down. 
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 10/07/2019
0198-19 Hankook Tyres
A motor vehicle is seen clearly speeding and cornering recklessly and doing a protracted wheel spin.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Pay 10/07/2019
0212-19 Roadshow Films
This outdoor advertisement is promoting the movie Annabelle Comes Home.
Dismissed Entertainment Outdoor 10/07/2019
0199-19 Sleep Clinics Albury Wodonga
This television advertisement depicts a man who snores and his wife, who elbows him and pushes him out of bed. 
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Health Products TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0213-19 Kellogg (Aust) Pty Ltd
Nutrigrain cereal. An athlete or an iron man is eating this cereal and performing super hero feats.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0178-19 Coles
The advertisement in question was promoting Coles Salmon. The ad featured Curtis Stone on a fishing boat declaring that their salmon was sustainable.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0202-19 LJ Hooker Mona Vale
It is a full page colour ad on the back page of the magazine with a naked child on the beach (from behind). It is for Mona vale LJ hooker describing “the bottom of the market has been and gone”
Dismissed Real Estate Print 10/07/2019
0214-19 Fantastic Snacks Australia
Television ad with a Japanese theme , buy product to win a Holiday.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0181-19 Telstra Corporation Ltd
Telstra advertisement about the launch of 5G
Dismissed Telecommunications TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0203-19 Network Ten Pty Limited
There is an ad for The project on channel 10 that has all four main hosts on bicycles, and the two male hosts are wearing helmets and the two female hosts are not.
Dismissed Entertainment Transport 10/07/2019
0215-19 Mitchell's Quality Foods
Television ad for Lite n' Easy
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0204-19 Lexus Australia
A black Lexus is seen being driven through a carpark, starting with a four wheel drift, then accelerating as it exits, without the driver slowing or stopping to see if there are any pedestrians (as is required when exiting private property onto a public road) then becoming airborne as it exits the carpark and bouncing as it hits the road, then another four wheel drift.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0216-19 Woolworths Group
Direct marketing email from everyday rewards program. Advertising 'Get your 10th longneck free'. Below this was a 'Dry July Partner' banner.
Dismissed Alcohol Email 10/07/2019
0191-19 Brand Developers
This is about the advertisement of the "Sunshine Blade Instant Heater".
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0205-19 LG Electronics Aust Pty Ltd
A 1-minute video ad circulating on Instagram.
Dismissed House Goods Services Internet - Social - Instagram 10/07/2019
0217-19 Electrolux Home Products
Advertising a hotplate with smart controls
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 10/07/2019
0193-19 Roadshow Films
This bus stop advertisement for Child's Play features an image of a doll holding a knife.
Dismissed Entertainment Outdoor 10/07/2019
0207-19 Step One
Pay TV ad for men's underwear.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Pay 10/07/2019
0218-19 Honey Birdette
Red Alert campaign: series of still images, all with red background featuring woman in various black lingerie pieces. Some feature text “censorship” across woman’s breasts. Displayed on digital screens and played on rotation at various speeds. 
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 10/07/2019
0194-19 Roadshow Films
Bus advertising for a movie called Child's Play depicting a frightening looking doll holding a knife. 
Dismissed Entertainment Transport 10/07/2019
0208-19 Roadshow Films
The outdoor advertisement for the movie 'After' features a man and a woman naked yet their bodies are concealed by each others.
Dismissed Entertainment Outdoor 10/07/2019
0219-19 Honey Birdette
Blonde woman in black multi piece lingerie set. Woman is shown from lips down. 
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 10/07/2019
0195-19 Roadshow Films
A billboard for a movie called Child's Play depicting a frightening looking doll holding a knife. 
Dismissed Entertainment Billboard 10/07/2019
June 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0180-19 Specsavers Pty Ltd
It was two women talking, the first one said she wasn't going to work as she'd heard about the sale and was going to take a sick day to go to it. The second woman then said she would have to take a sick day so she can go to the sale as well.
Dismissed Health Products Radio 26/06/2019
0190-19 Tasmanian Bakeries
Young men at a beach with surf boards. Dialogue in poetic form promoting national pies
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 26/06/2019
0172-19 Craveable Brands
This poster advertisement is for a new burger product, the "Hellfire". The poster depicts a burger with two meat patties.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries Poster 26/06/2019
0189-19 Adam & Eve
Advertisement included still images of dildos, vibtaors, cock rings
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 26/06/2019
0185-19 The Firm Gentlemens Club
The screen in the window out the front of the venue plays mainly video, and some static images. The video shows a woman in black lingerie moving her hands over her body and moving her body in sexy ways, including moving her hands from her chest down to and over her groin. It then shows her removing her pantyhose in a provocative and suggestive manner. The next video switches between two women individually dancing provocatively in lingerie (one in red lingerie, one in black lingerie).
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Sex Industry TV - Out of Home 26/06/2019
0179-19 Quit Tasmania
This particular quit smoking ad is extremely unpleasant. To hear somebody coughing so harshly and then to see the product of that cough is really revolting. Every time I have seen this ad has been during a mealtime and nobody, I’m sure, wants to see that while they’re eating. I know it’s meant to hit hard but I really do not think this graphic way is appropriate.
Dismissed Community Awareness TV - Free to Air 26/06/2019
0174-19 Honey Birdette
Front window poster advertising Chanee lingerie. Two women in see through mesh bra and knickers facing each other with bodies pressed against each other.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 26/06/2019
0184-19 ALDI Australia
Advertisement where people from Aldi are trying to convince Sarah to give Aldi another go.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 26/06/2019

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