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Van Heusen underwear ad banned: Too racy for Brisbane buses

Details are sketchy, but this advertisement for fashion label Van Heusen will not be allowed to run on the rear of Brisbane City Council buses. It’s been deemed too racy. Even us precious Brisbane folk can tolerate some clothed ass. Anyone in the CBD passes giant posters of scantily clad women daily when we walk...

Longer Lasting Sex billboards sexualise children and are confronting to Australians

After 18 months of dismissing complaints against Advanced Medical Institute’s giant yellow ‘Want Longer Lasting Sex?’ billboards, the Advertising Standards Bureau has backflipped and decided that the ad not only sexualises children, but is also confronting to a large section of the community. I wish I was joking. There’s two major problems here: 1) The...

Seven vetted Olympic ads

Bob was kind enough to update us on the GetUp/Channel 7 controversy and it looks like they weren’t the only organisation shafted by the TV network during their Olympics coverage. A Wilderness Society ad relating to the Western Australian election wouldn’t be run ‘until network bosses had seen it.’ SMH writes: “Channel Seven is so...

The Gruen Transfer tackle the Beaver Tampon Ad

Have you watched The Gruen Transfer? It’s a great show on ABC where Will Anderson and a panel of advertising execs dismantle advertisements, compete to sell whale meat, and talk about controversial ads. A week or two back they looked at the Emma Thompson human trafficking video, tomorrow it’s the Kotex Beaver ad that had...