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backpacking company that provides camper vans for tourists in Australia has been told it must remove slogans deemed offensive from its vehicles.
The Advertising Standards Bureau (ASB) has asked sexist and potentially racist adverts to be removed from the Brisbane-based Wicked Campers minibuses and campervans.
Alison Abernethy, ASB chief executive, remarked that although the slogans had clearly been intended as a joke by the company, they undoubtedly caused offence.
She said: "The board considered the slogans to be misogynistic and demeaning to women…and could not be considered humorous or acceptable.
"Complaints about four other vans could not be upheld as the board had no visual evidence that the vans with the slogans exist."
Slogans at the centre of the debacle include phrases such as "Save a Whale - Harpoon a Jap" and "Women are like banks - once you withdraw you lose interest".
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