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Oddly enough, The federal Medicare programme still pays a subsidy of AU$35.45 for non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref>{{REFweb
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|title=Scientific Advice, Traditional Practices and the Politics of Health-Care: The Australian Debate over Public Funding of
Non-Therapeutic Circumcision, 1985
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|journal=Hygiea Internationalis
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|date=2011
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