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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 1949 paper, ''The Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision'',<ref name="gairdner1949">{{REFjournal
|last=Gairdner
|first=Douglas M.
|DOI=
|accessdate=2019-10-27
}}</ref>
==Position statements of medical societies==
After considering the three papers published in the ''Australian Paediatric Journal'', the Australian Paediatric Society adopted a resolution on April 24, 1971 that the circumcision of male infants should not be performed as a routine measure. That resolution subsequently was reported in a letter published in the ''Medical Journal of Australia'' on May 22, 1971.<ref name="belmaine1971">{{REFjournal
|last=Belmaine
|first=SP
|author-link=
|title=Circumcision
|journal=Medical Journal of Australia
|date=1971-05-22
|volume=1
|issue=
|pages=1148
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/apa1971/
|accessdate=2019-19-28
}}</ref>