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== Australia and circumcision == | == Australia and circumcision == | ||
'''Australia''', like other English-speaking countries, once had a rather high rate of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision of male infants, however Australia (2019) now has a very low rate of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision. | '''Australia''', like other English-speaking countries, once had a rather high rate of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision of male infants, however Australia (2019) now has a very low rate of non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision. Consequently, the circumcised males are concentrated in the older age groups. As they pass away and are replaced by younger intact males, the prevalence of circumcised men is diminishing. Circumcised males are now in the minority in Australia and have been at least since 2011.<ref name="cozijn2013">{{REFweb | ||
|url=http://www.circinfo.org/statistics.html | |||
|title=Incidence and prevalence of circumcision in Australia | |||
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|last=Cozijn | |||
|first=John | |||
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|publisher=Circumcision Information Australia | |||
|website=circinfo.org | |||
|date=2013 | |||
|accessdate=2020-01-26 | |||
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==History== | ==History== | ||
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|date=1949 | |date=1949 | ||
|accessdate=2019-10-28 | |accessdate=2019-10-28 | ||
}}</ref> seems to have had no effect in Australia. | }}</ref> seems to have had no effect in Australia. However, criticism of the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision accelerated in 1967. | ||
Morgan (1967) criticised non-therapeutic circumcision in a letter published in the ''Medical Journal of Australia''.<ref>{{REFjournal | Morgan (1967) criticised non-therapeutic circumcision in a letter published in the ''Medical Journal of Australia''.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||