The event that precipitated Jan Olson’s outburst was, in fact, receiving a letter a few weeks earlier (dated 8 October 2014) from Robert McMahon, Assistant Secretary, Parliamentary and Government Branch of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

In it, McMahon confirmed the subject of his letter was a response to an application by Ms Olson under the FOI Act for an official copy of the Official confirmation of Abbott’s renunciation of British citizenship.

So, nothing to do with a birth certificate, but rather a request to see evidence Abbott had given up his British citizenship — something required by the Australian Constitution because the founding fathers did not want representatives with loyalties to foreign powers. The 1999 High Court decision in Sue vs Hill confirms dual UK/Australian citizens are ineligible to sit in Federal Parliament.

Ironically, Abbott, only became an Australian citizen in his 20s so he could accept a Rhodes Scholarship to study, back at Oxford University, England.

Back to the FOI request response to Jan Olson's request for evidence of Tony Abbott's renunciation of British citizenship:

Robert McMahon confirmed he was an ‘authorised decision-maker’ under the FOI Act.

He then went on to say the Department had searched the Department’s file management system, its current and former ministerial correspondence database, the computer drives of its relevant departments and the email accounts of current officers in relevant branches and [IA emphasis]:

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It was the fact the Department has confirmed that Abbott has never provided proof of his renunciation ‒ the Form RN for British citizens (not a birth certificate) that had so angered Jan and convinced her of Abbott’s likely deception.

If Abbott had, in fact, renounced his citizenship — surely this documentation would have been provided to Abbott's own Department.

And Jan is not alone. Now Putin is getting in on the act as well.

The frostbite between Vlad the shirt-fronted and Our Tony at APEC is palpable. They won’t look at each other. They won’t even shake hands for the camera.

But he’s cunning bastard, Putin. Not for nothing did he run the KGB.

He is also, from the old days, quite good friends with the chaps at Pravda. Which is probably why Pravda is going to run a little piece on Tony’s credentials in its English website; a sort of follow-up to the popular one it did in October after Abbott’s infamous shirtfronting statement.

It will be running it at 22.42 Moscow time on 14 November 2014. That is, 5.42am Brisbane time, on 15 November 2014 — or in other words, Day 1 of the G20.

Russia no longer has the KGB — now it has the SVR (in English, the Foreign Intelligence Service), who are also quite good at finding stuff out. The Pravda article might just be boring stuff and not tell us anything new, but then again, you never know.

Postscript

While remaining steadfastly light on detail, the AAP/News Limited story managed to get in the following sly dig:

US president Barack Obama faced the same birth conspiracies with rumours circulating during his presidency campaign that he was not a US citizen.

Theories allege that Obama’s published birth certificate is a forgery and that his actual birthplace is not Hawaii but Kenya according to Wikipedia. Other theories allege that Obama became a citizen of Indonesia in childhood, thereby losing his US citizenship. Others allege that Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen because he was born a dual citizen (British and American).

This is obfuscation writ large and has absolutely nothing to do with the issue. It’s the equivalent of rounding out a story on Peta Credlin with a reference to Margaret Aitken’s kindergarten years (Mrs Abbott to you).

The Australian media are, for some reason, desperate to protect Australia’s split loyalty PM — even to the extent of conflating completely unrelated issues and bizarrely introducing the topic of “racism”.

https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/a-gem-or-a-dual-tony-abbotts-lying-ingate,7086