Taxpayer money spent funding breast enhancements | NEWS.com.au

THE Royal Australian Navy is paying for women sailors to have breast enlargements for purely cosmetic reasons, at a cost to taxpayers of $10,000 an operation.

Defence officials claim the surgery is justified because some servicewomen need bigger breasts to address "psychological issues".

Darling Point plastic surgeon Kourosh Tavakoli told The Sunday Telegraph the navy had paid for two officers, aged 25 and 32, to have breast-augmentation surgery at his private clinic.

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Try as I might, I cannot conceive of a situation where bigger breasts would make women more effective sailors, which to my way of thinking, is the only possible justification for the RAN to pay for breast enhancement operations for female personnel. I would also think that taking this course of action would obligate the RAN in future years to cover the complete cost of any complications which might arise from such operations. The Rudd government, if this occurred on it's watch, has some tall explaining to do to Australian taxpayers.

Maybe they can balance for smaller life preservers in case the ship sinks...

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I think the guys in charge are just bored.

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"This Guy Fawkes bloke, do we let him off or what?"