Ad watchdog will ‘most likely’ not consider same-sex marriage ad complaints

August 17, 2017 4:08

The Advertising Standards Board has said it will “most likely” not consider complaints about advertisements related to the same-sex marriage plebiscite.

On the board’s blog, the watchdog wrote: “It is likely that most advertisements discussing or advocating the respective ‘yes’ or ‘no’ cases or participation or otherwise in the survey will be considered to be political advertising. Political advertising is not considered by the Advertising Standards Board under section 2 of the AANA Code of Ethics.”

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Abigail Dawson

Abigail Dawson was Mumbrella's senior content journalist covering event content. She left Mumbrella to move into an agency role in 2020.

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Ad Standards Board marriage equality

4 COMMENTS

Mellodrama 17 Aug 17

Typo in 2nd last paragraph? Or am I just not reading it correctly

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Vivienne Kelly 18 Aug 17

Hi Mellodrama,

You were reading it correctly. There was a typo.

Thanks for flagging. We have fixed.

Vivienne – Mumbrella

Interesting 18 Aug 17

I’d love to see how the NO campaign get around that one. Almost every commercial, simply by its very nature, will discriminate against people because of their sexual preference.

If you believe they do, I encourage you to lodge a complaint. Here’s the link: https://adstandards.com.au/lodge-complaint

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tamsin 18 Aug 17

thank you

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