Queensland’s Burger Urge criticised over its burger delivery campaign

It's 2016. Yet companies all over the world continue to push the toxic message that women are only valued for their sex appeal. We've spoken out about Calvin Klein before for their 'gang rape' billboards which thankfully at the time were ordered to be removed after complaints to the Advertising Standards Board. 

"We can shoot your wife and frame your mother-in-law, if you want we can hang them too" - Fantastic Framing

Our Queensland Volunteer Coordinator Angela shares her experience of a two year long fight trying to get a strip club billboard taken down. While the Advertising Standards Board upheld complaints, the strip club owner refused to take it down- and the current system of advertising (self) regulation means he doesn't have to, and that there are no penalties for non-compliance.

“…not sexually explicit or suggestive, or inappropriate in the circumstances”

- Advertising Standards Board, March, 2016 Case Number 0089/16 

What will 30 minutes at Chadstone Shopping Centre tell us about our pornified culture?

Larger than life graphic of woman on the side of a bus 'not overtly sexualised'

The Advertising Standards Board has determined that Honey Birdette's Christmas themed advertising - featuring a bound and gagged Santa Claus in shop front windows - is in breach of the advertising industry code of ethics. 

Honey Birdette - the sex shop masquerading as a high end lingerie store in major shopping centres, has once again shown exactly why it has been featured on our annual "Crossed Off" list for several years. 

And the Brisbane City Council doesn't care