OPPOSITION Leader Bill Shorten insists he is not a British citizen but is refusing to provide paperwork to confirm this, as the dual-citizenship saga continues.
Mr Shorten, whose father was born in England, said he will not be releasing the documents to confirm he has renounced British citizenship.
“I did renounce my citizenship many years ago,” Mr Shorten said at a press conference on Sunday.
“I have to say: I don’t feel any obligation to justify what I just said (not being a British citizen), because I know it to be true.”
Mr Shorten is believed to have renounced his citizenship in May 2006, ahead of the election on November 2007.
He is required to renounce British citizenship because people born between 1948 and January 1, 1983 to a father who was a British citizen by birth, are themselves a citizen unless they renounce.