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E.g., 19/10/2019
September 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0405-18 Webjet
This ad has a male and female in it. The ad promotes the stereotype that men are stupid.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0413-18 Kerr's Hire
The ad they have talks about a memorable day in 1982 with a husband going on about how wonderful that day was and he talks at the end that this is the year that Kerrs Hire started operating and his wife thought he was referring to the year they were married
Dismissed Hardware/Machinery Radio 26/09/2018
0408-18 DIY Resolutions Pty Ltd
Ad has a child riding a scooter through the kitchen and knocking a dish out of the mothers hands. 
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0417-18 Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors Pty Ltd
The ad was for the latest Predator movie and included guns, violence, and images of the Predator. 
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Pay 26/09/2018
0421-18 Lisa McGuigan Wines
Poster on the side of a bus "Once you've tried Blac you'll never go back" Lisa Mcguigan.
Dismissed Alcohol Transport 26/09/2018
0412-18 White Fox Boutique
Pay TV advertisement for White Fox Boutique.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Pay 26/09/2018
0401-18 AAMI
Commercial for car insurance. A family is using 3D glasses when to watch a movie when a car crashes through the wall. The father says "it's like he's in the room with us."
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0404-18 Hanes Brands Inc
Television advertisement featuring women playing sports with various balls that are shaped like women's breasts.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0425-18 Wicked Campers
Wicked Campervan WA rego 1DEA.616 with text displayed on the boot: "I'm here for the bukakke".
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 26/09/2018
0429-18 Specsavers Pty Ltd
That vision is priceless and cannot have a price attached to it
Dismissed Health Products Internet - Social - Other 26/09/2018
0411-18 Lion
The Instagram post dated July 25th 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BlpLJNIHm5D/?taken-by=brisbanegirlsabroad) depicts two young women drinking and holding bottles of XXXX Summer Bright Lager. The post is from Brisbane Girls Abroad’s Instagram page that has 7,399 followers (https://www.instagram.com/brisbanegirlsabroad/) and is captioned:   “Picnicing in the golden hour ?? So good to be home after such a busy few weeks away and then at Splendour. We both used to live on the Sunshine Coast and still spend a lot of time there. It’s definitely one of our favourite places to not do anything.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0416-18 Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors Pty Ltd
The ad was for the latest Predator movie and included guns, violence, and images of the Predator.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0424-18 Tribe Breweries
The Instagram post dated July 12th 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BlIXqc3AGIf/?hl=en) depicts two social media influencers with one drinking a bottle of Wilde Beer.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0428-18 Specsavers Pty Ltd
Here is the link to the Ad https://youtu.be/OoBeg5rI08USpecsavers set up a fake research coming and ask people how much they would sell there eyes for. People are horrified and say no money is worth being blind.
Dismissed Health Products Internet - Social - Facebook 26/09/2018
0403-18 Pretty Little Thing
The ad features women posing on horses and cars. 
Dismissed Clothing TV - Pay 26/09/2018
0420-18 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
Driving a new VW Polo car by a young man with his father preceded by his life history of accidents and crazy stunts.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0423-18 Tribe Breweries
The Instagram post dated July 25th 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/BloaWL8gpar/?taken-by=wilde_beer) depicts two social media influencers with one holding a bottle of Wilde Beer.
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0427-18 Specsavers Pty Ltd
This specsavers ad asks people to put a $worth in their eyes. And continues to portray what their life would be like without sight. 
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0436-18 Ubank
This television advertisement features a little girl playing with a doll on the floor as her parents eat dinner with friends. The girl is pretending she is on the phone to the bank about her home loan application, and says the words "You're the fifth *beep* person I've spoken to this week".
Dismissed Finance/Investment TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0406-18 The Firm Gentlemens Club
The Firm has an advertisement that airs frequently at night about their business. Shoes a woman in lingerie, you can see her nipple. Then an another woman in a G-string and full view backside.
Dismissed Sex Industry TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
0410-18 Lion
The Instagram post dated August 1st 2018 (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl7laIRHo5R/?tagged=summerbrightlager) depicts two young women and two young men drinking and holding bottles of XXXX Summer Bright Lager. The post is from Brisbane Girls Abroad’s Instagram page that has 7,399 followers (https://www.instagram.com/brisbanegirlsabroad/) and is captioned:   “ Exactly where we want to be ????
Dismissed Alcohol Internet - Social - Instagram 26/09/2018
0415-18 Bondi Perfume
This advertisement features an over-exaggerated negative depiction of an Italian family. They are portrayed as hairy sexual predators. 
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 26/09/2018
September 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0376-18 Roadshow Films
Says twice murders and also states « good for you » . It has two muppets pictures which most relate to kids programs. Depicts and desensitises children and community to murder! Just as Australia attempts to resolve violence and crime. Ridiculous USA movie title and advertising.
Dismissed Entertainment Billboard 12/09/2018
0390-18 Roadshow Films
Promotion for new movie Mile 22
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0398-18 Honey Birdette
Honey Birdette branded poster, of a stocked product - Maria. Full breasts and nipples visible in a photo of a women posing in sheer and black embroidered lingerie, similar to a bathing suit shape. 
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 12/09/2018
0380-18 FOXTEL Management Pty Ltd
Ad with surprised looking seal and the words "WHAT THE 4K!" Intended 'play on words' aimed specifically to a younger audience thus large illustration of a Seal
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Pay 12/09/2018
0375-18 Mercedes-Benz Aust/Pacific P/L
An advertisement with the The Mercedes-Benz A-Class. Indecorous behaviour, minors in a car kissing in an appropriate way. 
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0384-18 FOXTEL Management Pty Ltd
The advertisement reads "What the 4K" and is promoting a new channel which Foxtel is launching
Dismissed Entertainment Print 12/09/2018
0389-18 Roadshow Films
A new movie trailer about a big shark killing people. It was visually scary with red blood seen in the water.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0393-18 Motorcycle Service Centre
A mobile billboard on the rear of a bus, promoting a motorcycle servicing and roadworthy centre.
Dismissed Automotive Transport 12/09/2018
0374-18 Team Uggs
Two men describing the product in question (branded footwear) while one of the men parodies a transgender person to the discomfort of the other.
Dismissed Clothing TV - Pay 12/09/2018
0397-18 Sexyland
Advertising that all sex toys, sex clothing etc...is on sale for Fathers Day. Make your father extremely happy with new sex toys etc...
Dismissed Sex Industry Radio 12/09/2018
0379-18 FOXTEL Management Pty Ltd
The ad contains a picture of a fur seal with a shocked look on its face, with the words “what the 4K”?!
Dismissed Entertainment Outdoor 12/09/2018
0388-18 Volkswagen Group Australia Pty Limited
A young man is at a party when a white car driven by young woman pulls up in the driveway. He apologises for overstaying, she is upset. He proceeds to send a text message to the car audio system which converts to a text message imploring the girl to forgive him.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0373-18 Caltex Australia Ltd
The lady is entering data on her smartphone to pay Caltex ( fuel?) to illustrate how quick this can be she is engaged in a race with a man using a chainsaw to cut through timber.
Dismissed Automotive TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0392-18 Roadshow Films
Trailer for horror movie The Nun.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Entertainment TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0396-18 Roadshow Films
Ad for a horror movie "The Nun" 
Dismissed Entertainment TV - On Demand 12/09/2018
0378-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The ad introduces ‘Maccas new breakfast burger.. the big mac’ And goes to point out all burgers are available all day and you can have them for breakfast
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0387-18 Bras n' Things
A series of short film vignettes of a woman wearing undergarments in which she was portrayed as there for others' pleasure only. Very much bordering on pornography. A particularly bad part of the series of vignettes was where a string of fairy lights directed the viewers attention to areas they may which to caress
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Out of Home 12/09/2018
0400-18 Wicked Campers
Wicked Camper Van with South Australian registration S 388 BSUwith the words “if you want to toughen up grow a vagina - those things can really take a pounding” on the rear of the vehicle.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 12/09/2018
0382-18 Choosi Pty Ltd
It was an ad for Choosi, set in a library, where three Choosi representatives (actors) direct library patrons. 
Dismissed Insurance TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0399-18 Honey Birdette
This poster displayed a woman in very revealing lingerie in a particularly sexual pose as if she was touching herself. The words "EDEN, savour every sweet sensation" are on the image.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 12/09/2018
0377-18 Toyota Motor Corp Aust Ltd
Parents day at school with parents telling school kids what they do for a living. There's a fireman, a pilot (man). No prizes for guessing the female was a nurse.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0386-18 Club X
Multiple images of sex toys, each one approx 5ft in height
Dismissed Sex Industry Poster 12/09/2018
0391-18 Roadshow Films
The poster was advertising a new movie called "The Nun".
Dismissed Entertainment Billboard 12/09/2018
0395-18 Barbeques Galore
This ad has a male and female in it. It promotes the stereotype that men are stupid, poking fun at fathers more than a dad joke. As part of the code vilifying a person is to belittle them. This type of advertising to put down one gender is to belittle them and to make males look stupid. 
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 12/09/2018
0381-18 Wicked Campers
SA registered van, rego S411 BVROn the back of the van is "I GOT A DIG BICK / YOU THAT READ WRONG / YOU READ THAT WRONG TOO.On the side of the van is a picture of a rooster and the words 'MASSIVE COCK'
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 12/09/2018
0385-18 Honey Birdette
A poster for 'Chelsea' showing two women in underwear, one where their breasts are covered in see-through material bodysuit with small flowers covering nipples. The woman is looking salaciously at the other woman with the tag line "let the feast begin". 
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 12/09/2018
August 2018
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0362-18 Best & Less
Woman lying on side in bed with bra on and big cleavage on display, looks like she's about to fall out of her bra.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 22/08/2018
0371-18 Youfoodz
During the commercial, one lady is heard to say to the effect “Woopty (beep) do”. There is a slight sound of her saying “F” between the two words where the beep is inserted.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 22/08/2018

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