The number of Medicare-funded circumcisions in the ACT is continuing to fall, according to Department of Human Services data. Just 162 of the procedures were performed in the ACT in 2016, of the 19,140 undertaken Australia-wide.

Since there was no Medicare rebate support for non-medical circumcision services, ANU Medical School Associate Professor Dr David Croaker has had his views on the procedure tested."Anglo-Saxon Australians will sometimes come in demanding circumcisions for their boys, for no particular reason, other than they think it's a good thing," he said.
"But I think it is child abuse. I am sometimes tempted to tell the Jews and Muslims the same thing, and sometimes I have."

"We get exposed to a lot of traumatic stuff and you want to talk about that and you can't always," he said.