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E.g., 03/04/2020
E.g., 03/04/2020
March 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0070-19 Subaru (Aust) Pty Ltd
The father and son are driving on a country road and stop for a train. The father is annoyed about having to wait but turns to the child and sees delight. The next scene they are standing in front of the car past the stop crossed signs watching the train pass
Dismissed Vehicle 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
0057-19 Table One Espresso
A woman is simulating having an orgasm while a man describes the product.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue Radio 06/03/2019
0065-19 Stan
Television advertisement promoting Stan show 'Miracle Workers'.
Dismissed Entertainment 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
0069-19 Nestle Australia Ltd
Advertising a new breakfast product - an oat breakfast bar. Consists of a father and son discussing in Scottish accents how to make porridge.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/03/2019
February 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
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
0043-19 Uber
Tennis stars advertising Uber Eats
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
0051-19 Honey Birdette
Poster advertisement featuring the word Kukuro. The advertisement features a woman in bondage-style lingerie leaning against a motorbike with her back facing the camera. The Lingerie is made of black straps and buckles and leaves the woman's buttocks exposed.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 20/02/2019
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
0042-19 McDonald's Aust Ltd
Advertisement promoting "double up" of main ingredients.
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
0050-19 Honey Birdette
Poster advertisement features the name Saskia and a picture of a woman in a black leather and mesh lingerie set. She is wearing a bra, thong and suspenders and is leaning against a motor bike.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 20/02/2019
0047-19 Cosmetique
This was a large advertisement for breast implants on the back of a council bus that featured a naked woman holding her breasts with her arms crossed.
Dismissed Professional Services Transport 20/02/2019
0036-19 Stan
The ad was a preview/promo for the Stan series Black Monday.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - On Demand 20/02/2019
0046-19 Parfums Christian Dior
Perfume advertisement for Dior featuring Charlize Theron.
Dismissed Toiletries TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
0038-19 Thorne Harbour Health
Two men in white underwear arms over each other.
Dismissed Community Awareness Billboard 20/02/2019
0045-19 Hunter Valley Steel
The ad starts with a women answering a phone with an exaggerated accent. A man places an order for 1mm steel to fix his box trailer, and she quotes a price. A voice over then asks if you spotted the mistake. Another male then states that the 1mm steel would not be appropriate for the job and suggests more suitable material. The voice over states when you need an expert not an order taker, call HV Steel.
Dismissed Professional Services Radio 20/02/2019
0049-19 ANZ Banking Group Ltd
The advertisement depicts a man in a wheelchair, moving from the left side of the shot to the right. He stops at the right hand side of the shot.Soon after, a tiger begins walking towards him growling. The man is clearly in a panic - hyperventilating and shaking his hands around. He does not move his wheelchair away, and the shot cuts off as the tiger is now very close to the man.
Dismissed Finance/Investment Internet - Social - Other 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
0052-19 Honey Birdette
Not your valentine campaign, “Vienna”. Woman in sheer, black bodysuit straddling motorbike. Image contains side view of model’s fully exposed breast (nipple has been airbrushed).
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Lingerie Poster 20/02/2019
0040-19 Suzuki Australia Pty Limited
Advertisement for Suzuki Vitara.
Dismissed Vehicle TV - Free to Air 20/02/2019
February 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0030-19 Metricon Homes
The ad displayed a naked woman in the bath tub cleaning her shoulder. 
Dismissed Real Estate TV - Free to Air 06/02/2019
0029-19 Koala Sleep
The billboard states 'INOFNIDEA'? .
Dismissed House Goods Services Billboard 06/02/2019
0545-18 McDonald's Aust Ltd
The advertisement is a McDonald’s app called ‘Happy Studio’, available for download on mobile devices. The app provides interactive games and activities for children, with the character that the child controls being an animated Happy Meal box.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Venue App 06/02/2019
0015-19 Pixelberry Studios
Asking the player to ‘PLAY NOW’ after showing a video of a female coming home and walking into the bedroom to find her partner in bed with another female.
Dismissed Entertainment App 06/02/2019
0028-19 Koala Sleep
Radio ad contained the phrase "Australian as...digging a hole in a dead dog's donger" 
Dismissed House Goods Services Radio 06/02/2019
0551-18 Alka Power
Web page with images and text promoting Alkalne Water.
Upheld - Modified or Discontinued Food/Bev Groceries Internet 06/02/2019
0027-19 BetterHelp
The advertisement depicts a women having a panic attack in her car and house. It ends with her chatting online with a 'counsellor' from betterhelp.com.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 06/02/2019
0032-19 A2 Milk
Baby formula tin with the headline ‘believe in better’ and photo of a baby.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries Billboard 06/02/2019
0031-19 Ladbroke.com.au
Ladbrokes advertising gambling on australian open. Features a close up of a woman's bust swinging a tennis raquet.
Dismissed Gambling TV - Free to Air 06/02/2019
0026-19 Santos Ltd
The advertisment promoted Santos’s environmental benefits of natural gas (CSG) compared to coal mines, alongside their involvement in the Tour Down Under.
Dismissed House Goods Services TV - Free to Air 06/02/2019
0012-19 SodaStream Australia
Soda stream uses one reusable bottle to make hundreds of carbonated drinks, rather than wasting hundreds of bottles. Hundreds of plastic bottles are shown.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/02/2019
0025-19 Youfoodz
Youfoodz ad featuring people describing places where they have 'lost it'.
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 06/02/2019
January 2019
Case number Ad Standards description Determination Category Media Determination datesort ascending
0547-18 Moranbah Dental
There are two men in a red convertible sports car. They are ogling two women sitting at a bus stop. One of the men sneezes and his dentures fly out of his mouth.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
0542-18 Yum Restaurants International
BucketLive a little
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue Transport 23/01/2019
0017-19 Museum of Old and New Art
Television advertisement for MONA exhibition.
Dismissed Entertainment TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
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"
Dismissed Travel Transport 23/01/2019
0020-19 Specsavers Pty Ltd
Male subject attaching basketball ring to a car garage door instead of above it.
Dismissed Health Products TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
0024-19 WR Engineering
The advertisement involves two men discussing how "she's still looking good after all these years" while overlooking a woman gardening. The woman then realises the men are discussing a garage door.
Dismissed Professional Services TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
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_/  
Dismissed Health Products Internet - Social - Instagram 23/01/2019
0003-19 Mars Wrigley Confectionery
The ad has three women each eating Maltesers whilst describing their weekend. 
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
0011-19 Booking.com Internation B.V.
It shows people in different countries with accomodation.
Dismissed Travel TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
0016-19 Sexyland
Sexy land ads at 7.59am advertising a sexy land sale with clear direction to purchase a rabbit and lubricant and other sex toys on sale.
Dismissed Sex Industry Radio 23/01/2019
0023-19 McDonald's Aust Ltd
McDonald's advertising the new 36 flavour frozen fantas. 
Dismissed Food/Bev Venue TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
0540-18 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"
Dismissed Food/Bev Groceries TV - On Demand 23/01/2019
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.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Travel Transport 23/01/2019
0548-18 Stephanie's Boutique Lingerie
In the ad, there are multiple images of women in their underwear.
Dismissed Lingerie TV - Free to Air 23/01/2019
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.
Upheld - Not Modified or Discontinued Sex Industry Transport 23/01/2019
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".
Dismissed Community Awareness Billboard 23/01/2019
0543-18 Honey Birdette
This poster advertisement features a model laying down, wearing electric blue and black lingerie with suspenders. The caption on the ad states 'Honey B's guide to Christmas TAKE THE REINS Whitney Set'.
Dismissed Lingerie Poster 23/01/2019

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