MSM picks up questions of Abbott's citizenship

I posted about this the other day. The question of whether Abbott had renounced his British citizenship before entering parliament. Nobody can find anything.

Now the main stream media has picked up the story, and none other than the Murdoch run ninemsn. These are legitimate questions to answer:

Ninemsn contacted the Prime Minister's Office and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet seeking confirmation that Mr Abbott has renounced his British Citizenship. 

After a three-hour wait, the office replied with this single-sentence statement: 

"The Prime Minister is an Australian citizen and does not hold citizenship of any other country." 

Mr Abbott was born in London in 1957, to a British father and Australian mother and emigrated to Australia in 1960. He is a naturalised Australian citizen, and travelled to study at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship that was only available to Australian citizens. 

Three thousand people have signed a Change.org petition seeking the confirmation of Abbott's renunciation of British citizenship. 

Section 44 of the constitution has seen sitting members disqualified before – in 1996 Jackie Kelly was forced to face a by-election when she was found to have been elected while holding both Australian and New Zealand citizenship. Read more  

I'd never heard of this before about the citizenship thing and parliament. I myself am a dual citizen of New Zealand and Australia - not that I'd ever bother running for office, too many dark secrets darlings to be exploited :)  

But how interesting that this has gone more than just a conspiracy theory to be dismissed as online wackos, but has now gained the attention of the main stream press who have picked up the story. They don't generally do that over an online conspiracy theory.