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Taxpayers’ navy bust-up
Source: SBS - WORLD NEWS AUSTRALIA
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Taxpayers’ navy bust-up
Taxpayers pay $10,000 when a female sailor wants breast enlargements, and the breast enlargements are cosmetic, News Limited newspapers says.
Defence Force officials say the surgery is justified as some women need bigger breasts to address "psychological issues".
An Australian Defence Force (ADF) spokesman confirmed the cosmetic surgery was done "at public expense" when there were "compelling psychological/psychiatric reasons", but he refused to say how many such procedures were funded by taxpayers.
Navy pays
Plastic surgeon Kourosh Tavakoli says the navy had paid for two officers to have breast enlargement surgery at his clinic.
The officers were aged 25 and 32 and claimed to have "psychological" problems.
"I've had two female navy officers who've got the navy to pay for breast augmentation for psychological reasons," he told News Ltd.
Claimed back
"I know for a fact the two patients claimed it back on the navy.
“They know it was breast augmentation and they (the navy) pay for it.
"There's no breast augmentation that I know of for medical purposes."
Disfiguration
The ADF spokesman says cosmetic surgery was provided for servicemen or women whose bodies were disfigured on the job.
"Cosmetic procedures undertaken solely for the purpose of preserving or improving a person's subjective appearance will be considered only if the underlying (psychological) problem is causing difficulties that adversely impact on the member's ability to do their job," he says.
"Operations purely for cosmetic reasons (preserving or improving a person's subjective appearance) are not allowed."
A spokesman for Defence Minister Brendan Nelson says statistics related to defence personnel who had operations for cosmetic reasons were unavailable until next week.
SOURCE: AAP
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