[UPDATE] WIN! #BESTRACK Ad withdrawn 'due to complaints'

We have received notification from the Advertising Standards Board that the Bavarian Bier Cafe has voluntarily withdrawn the ad campaign from both social media and outdoor advertising. 

The "I support Women in Sport" awards hosted by Women's Health Magazine faced social media condemnation for its decision to hire body painted semi-naked models to parade and pose on the red carpet for the event.

People power forces Wicked Campers to withdraw misogynistic marketing

Dave Martin and Collective Shout

In response to our petition Isuzu has agreed to remove its “x rated” sex tourism competition.

More than 1000 people signed the petition in the first 24 hours. In the end we received a total of 3608 supporters. It was great see see so many men like me express outrage about this too!

It has been reported that US rapper Tyler the Creator and his rap group "Odd Future" have been barred from entering New Zealand.

New Zealand Immigration deemed the group a "potential threat to public order" and pointed to several past incidents of inciting violence, including against Australian anti violence activist Talitha Stone.

Media Release

Foxtel's publicity stunt highlights failure of Advertising Industry self-regulation

We were recently alerted to a billboard in Sydney advertising the Foxtel Channel "Studio." The billboard featured an image of a man preparing to have sex with a pig.

Clothing retailer Best & Less responds to complaints

Last week Collective Shout supporter Deb McNair alerted us to a range of children’s underwear in Best & Less. The underwear sets included knickers with matching crop tops in puppies, kittens and Tinkerbell patterns for girls as young as two.

The petition calling on ZOO magazine to apologise and scrap its 'hottest asylum seeker competition' accumulated over 6000 signatures. Change.org sent out the following email to petition supporters today.  Thanks to all who signed and shared the petition. You can read the original article here.

“ZOO Weekly regrets any offence caused to any of our readers, and to any asylum seeker or refugee and their families and supporters. We apologise for being insensitive.” -- Tim Keen, editor of Zoo Weekly

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Last month Telstra was exposed for supplying pornography through its BigPond website over video capable mobile phones. Just a few clicks away from 'Go Diego Go' and Telstra's 'women at work' page dedicated to women's equality in the workplace, users could purchase porn videos such as 'Dirty Housewives' and 'Hot Asians Get Wet.'