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An exhibition documenting 200 years of Australian advertising, from corsets to clotheslines to political movements, opens at the National Library.
Topics: library-museum-and-gallery, advertising, human-interest, history, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedThe Sell: Australian Advertising 1790s to 1990s features advertisements that have helped shape Australian culture.
Topics: advertising, library-museum-and-gallery, canberra-2600, australia, act
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Stared at in the street but unseen in the media, Michelle Blomley wants change for her daughter.
Topics: children, advertising, disabilities, darwin-0800
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Alcohol advertising will be banned from buses and other state-owned public transport infrastructure if Western Australia's former mental health minister has her way.
Topics: alcohol, alcohol-education, advertising, states-and-territories, state-parliament, perth-6000, wa
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| UpdatedSecond and third-generation Australians say they are shocked by Federal Government Facebook advertisements encouraging them to tell their relatives not to come to Australia illegally.
Topics: immigration, government-and-politics, advertising, social-media
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| UpdatedOne can only imagine the conversation that occurred during marketing meetings when Weight Watchers decided to send women 'mood lights' to help improve their sex lives.
Topics: sexuality, women, advertising, social-media, womens-health, australia
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Warnings should precede shock adverts campaigning against crime and poor driving because they are triggering PTSD-like symptoms in victims, a support group says.
Topics: mental-health, advertising, law-crime-and-justice, crime-prevention, community-and-society, domestic-violence, human-interest, sa, adelaide-5000
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| UpdatedThe Age newspaper is forced to apologise after it runs a half-page advertisement commiserating AFL premiers, the Western Bulldogs, over their apparent grand final loss.
Topics: australian-football-league, sport, print-media, human-interest, offbeat, information-and-communication, advertising, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedFirst there was a lamb ad billed as Australia's most diverse ever, then a wheelchair athlete featured in a catalogue for a major clothing chain, and now a young boy from regional New South Wales is the new face of diversity in advertising.
Topics: disabilities, advertising, advertising-and-marketing, discrimination, orange-2800, sydney-2000
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Topics: disabilities, children, advertising
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Topics: disabilities, discrimination, advertising, sydney-2000
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Topics: disabilities, media, advertising, orange-2800
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The Kardashian family add hashtag #ad to some of their promotional social media posts after being called out by a US consumer watchdog group for allegedly not disclosing product placements on their accounts.
Topics: social-media, internet-culture, information-and-communication, advertising, community-and-society, united-states
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A spokesman for the Premier defends the cost of an advertising blitz promoting the New South Wales Government's controversial greyhound racing ban.
Topics: animal-welfare, animals, advertising, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedNew research highlights the incredible pace in which Australia's media landscape is changing with data showing social media is well on the way to being the primary source of news for most Australians.
Topics: media, social-media, information-and-communication, advertising, advertising-and-marketing, australia
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Social media giant Facebook will begin showing ads to users who have installed ad-blockers as part of an update to its user preferences, a move attacked as "anti-user" and "not choice".
Topics: internet-technology, social-media, advertising, advertising-and-marketing
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| UpdatedThe days are numbered for the WA Government's controversial Bigger Picture advertising campaign promoting big infrastructure projects, Premier Colin Barnett confirms.
Topics: government-and-politics, advertising, wa
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Marion Nestle is a global authority on nutrition whose books exposing the methods used by big food and soft drink companies have earned her a fearless reputation.
Topics: ethics, globalisation---society, university-and-further-education, activism-and-lobbying, health, diet-and-nutrition, obesity, smoking, advertising, beverages, research, sydney-2000, united-states
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| UpdatedOwner of the Beechworth Sweet Co announces the business will remove the use of golliwogs from their television advertisement.
Topics: small-business, advertising, beechworth-3747
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| UpdatedChina is reportedly leasing a giant billboard in New York's Times Square, showcasing a video asserting its claim over the South China Sea and falsely suggesting a British MP supports its claim over the disputed waterway.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, advertising, foreign-affairs, united-states, china
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| UpdatedQueensland wants to ban vehicles with offensive slogans from its roads, in a move that targets businesses which thrive on the adverse publicity.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, advertising, qld, brisbane-4000
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Political analysts join Senator Nick Xenophon's calls for tougher rules governing political advertising, including regulating the level of truth in political advertising.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, federal-government, advertising, information-and-communication, australia
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| UpdatedThe Australian Olympic Committee takes Telstra to the Federal Court over allegations its advertisements are misleading and suggest the telecommunications company is a team sponsor.
Topics: olympic-games-organising-committee, sport, olympics-summer, advertising, courts-and-trials, australia