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The incidence of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision in Australia approached that of the United States in the 1930s through 1960s.
[[Douglas Gairdner]],s famous, classic paper, ''The Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision'',<ref name="gairdner1949">{{REFjournal
|last=Gairdner
|first=Douglas M.
|title=The fate of the foreskin: a study of circumcision
|journal=British Medical Journal
|volume=2
|issue=4642
|pages=1433-1437
|url=
|quote=
|pubmedID=15408299
|pubmedCID=2051968
|DOI=10.1136/bmj.2.4642.1433
|date=1949
|accessdate=2019-10-28
}}</ref> seems to have had no effect in Australia.
The ''Australian Paediatric Journal'' issue of June 1970, published three articles critical of non-therapeutic infant circumcision.<ref>{{REFjournal