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The incidence of non-therapeutic child [[circumcision ]] in Australia started to decline after the publication of the Belmaine (1971) letter. By 1978, only 50 percent of newborn boys were being circumcised. The [[Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons]] (1996) in an official statement, called "routine" (i.e. non-therapeutic) circumcision "inappropriate and unneessary."<ref name=leditschke1996>{{REFdocument |title=Guidelines for Circumcision |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aaps/ |last=Leditschke |first=J. Fred |author-link= |publisher=Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons |format= |date=1996 |accessdate=2021-11-07}}</ref>
The incidence of circumcision continued to decline, so that by 1996, when the Australian College of Paediatrics issued a statement, it reported that the incidence of "routine" (i.e. non-therapeutic) circumcision was estimated at ten percent of newborn boys.<ref name-"acp1996>{{REFweb