Methylated Spirits in Australia IS what you in the US call Denatured Alcohol.

I am not a chemist, and it seems I have managed to confuse myself (not hard to do these days) but I was correct the first time when I said Ethanol.

This is Methylated Spirits which we use here, and the run-of-the mill 95% stuff you get at supermarkets and hardware stores:

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It clearly states 95% v/v Ethanol