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When Anthony John Abbott was born to an English father and a first-generation Australian mother at a general lying-in hospital in York Road, Lambeth, London, on 4 November 1957, his parents did not register him as an Australian infant born overseas or immediately apply for Australian citizenship on his behalf.Presumably because at that time Richard and Fay Abbott thought they would be permanently living in England and raising a family there.He therefore had only one official nationality status – as a British subject and citizen.In fact