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== 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.
==History==
|first=Robert
|author-link=Robert Darby
|etal=no
|title=Infant circumcision in Australia: a preliminary estimate, 2000–10
}}</ref>
===Continuing decline in practice of non-therapeutic circumcision===
Na, Tanny & Hutson (2015) discussed the matter of non-therapeutic circumcision of children in Australia. They concluded:
<blockquote>There is insufficient scientific evidence to support routine newborn circumcision in Australia done for UTI risk and HIV transmission issues alone. Therefore, any surgical complication and financial cost of routine newborn circumcision for these reasons in Australia currently cannot be justified. From a medical point of view, the‘price’ is still too high.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Na
|first=Angelika F
|author-link=
|last2=Tanny
|first2=Sherman PT
|author2-link=
|last3=Hutson
|first3=John M.
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Circumcision: Is it worth it for 21st-century Australian boys?
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
|location=
|date=2015
|volume=51
|issue=
|pages=580-3
|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpc.12825
|quote=
|pubmedID=25683279
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1111/jpc.12825
|accessdate=2019-12-16
}}</ref></blockquote>
The incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision of children in Australia has continued to diminish. Circumcision Information Australia (2017) reported an incidence of infant circumcision of 9.66 percent in fiscal 2015.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.circinfo.org/statistics.html