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The indigenous people of Australia, the [[Aborigines]], have variously practiced [[subincision]] and [[circumcision]] since before the first contact with Europeans.
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 1949 paper, ''The Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision'',<ref name="gairdner1949">{{GairdnerDM 1949}}</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
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The ''Australian Paediatric Journal'' issue of June 1970, published three articles critical of non-therapeutic infant [[circumcision]].<ref name="leitch1970">{{REFjournal
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