An advisory governmental institution in an Australian state is recommending that it ban non-medical circumcision on boys “except for religious reasons.” The Tasmania Law Reform Institute – whose task ...

The boy’s younger brother was also rushed to intensive care after the same procedure at a private clinic in Perth, Australia. News Editor A 2-year-old boy has died while undergoing circumcision at a ...

Guidelines on circumcision from one of Australia's peak medical bodies refute the findings of a German court that has ruled that circumcising young boys represents grievous bodily harm.

The protection boys get from circumcision against severe infection is akin to what they get from vaccination, a leading Australian researcher claims. A systematic review of male infant circumcision, ...

Sydney-based Al-Ghazzali Centre for Islamic Sciences and Human Development founder and president, Imam Afroz Ali, appeared on the ABC's 7:30 program in October, condemning female genital mutilation ...

DARWIN, Australia, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Northern Territory, Australia, Child Abuse Taskforce said an aboriginal circumcision ceremony that sent three teens to the hospital is not child abuse. Three ...

Infant male circumcision will be banned in public hospitals in Victoria from next month, except in cases where there is a medical need. NSW, Western Australia and Tasmania have already restricted ...

Machinist Arnaldo Enciso from Victoria strives to look for a Filipino doctor to do the procedure for his 13-year-old son's circumcision, and finally, the surgery was done last December 2022. "It's a ...

Although Australian medical authorities have given a firm thumbs down to routine (prophylactic) circumcision of male infants and boys, the practice persists among a shrinking minority of parents. They ...