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Great research as always, I don't know where you get the time.

HONDO said

Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ). Note the double up of the censorship rating on the Australian daybill poster. There was advertising placed within Australian theatres screening Blackboard Jungle stating that children under 16 were not admitted to the screening, a

For anyone interested, the changes made to allow viewing in Australia included the shortening the shot of a ''lady teacher's legs as she ascends steps to the auditorium stage'' and the scene of a ''lady school teacher lifting dress and adjusting suspenders on both stockings.'' Australian censors also abridged scenes including a rape, an alley fight, and a classroom fight. A total of 165 feet of objectionable footage was excised from the film before being passed for screening in Australia.

 

Blackboard Jungle received a total of 16 censorship cuts by the Australian censor when originally classified.

 ( Cinema Treasues )

An Australian cinema advertisement publicising  the fact that the film had been originally banned here,

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Gigantis The Fire Monster  ( 1959  ) received 16 cuts when classified by the Australian film censor in 1960. This surely then would be the reason that the film only received a ''For General Exhibition'' censorship rating in Australia for its release in 1960. The film received an 'A' certificate when first released in the U.K. 
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 (Trove ).

Thought I would include this advertisement showing how they recruited Australian film Censors in 1925.

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The following just confirms how much Australian film sensors disliked  horror films .In 1958 the Australian Commonwealth film censor rejected 13 features, with twelve of these being horror films, while cuts were made on  225 films, mainly on account of excessive violence.

My unofficial obtained records list only ten Australian banned films in 1958, with eight listed as being horror films.

 Did any of the remainIng five unknown horror films perhaps include  I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, I Was A Teenage Werewolf, The Cyclops and Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman? It would certainly be interesting to know.

        

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 ( John )
A Framed ( 1975 ) Australian daybill.

An error occurred in the printing with an incorrect censorship rating applied. The film was refused classification by the Australian censor  on 1 / 9 / 1975. Six months late on  the  1 / 3 /1976. the film, with a reduced running time of 100 minutes that had been edited down from 103 minutes  to 100 minutes, was classified with an  R rating. The poster was later altered to display the correct rating.

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This probably 1940's Australian censorship material is interesting.There is no separate rating for Suitable Only For Adults, non horror genre films listed with the classifications that appear on the image appearing above.  



A Horror Film Suitable Only For Adults Australian censorship classification slide from most likely the very late 1940's.