The Darbon Institute works to protect and promote the health and human rights of children by developing policy and influencing decision-makers.

If you have any questions about the Darbon Institute's policy and advocacy work, please contact: [email protected] 

Policy papers

• Position statement on Medicare rebates for circumcision (January 2024)
• Submission to the independent review of the regulation of health practitioners in cosmetic surgery (April 2022)

Case summaries

• The Queen v A2; The Queen v Magennis; The Queen v Vaziri [2019] HCA 35 (16 October 2019) 

Key documents

• Australian Government Response to theHouse of Representatives Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs Report: Inquiry into family, domestic and sexual violence (March 2023) - See recommendations 1, 4 and 34 relating to female genital mutilation
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Circumcision of infant males (December 2022)
• Australian Human Rights Commission, Ensuring health and bodily integrity: towards a human rights approach for people  born with variations in sex characteristics (October 2021)
• Tasmania Law Reform Institute, Non-therapeutic male circumcision: Final Report No 17 (August 2012)
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Circumcision of infant males (September 2010)
• Queensland Law Reform Commission, Circumcision of infant males: Research paper (December 1993)