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Michael Mansell (Michael Alexander Mansell) was born on 5 June, 1951 in Northern Tasmania, Australia, is an Australian lawyer and Tasmanian Aboriginal activist. Discover Michael Mansell's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Michael Alexander Mansell
Occupation Lawyer, activist
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 5 June, 1951
Birthday 5 June
Birthplace Northern Tasmania, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1951

Michael Alexander Mansell (born 5 June 1951 in northern Tasmania) is a Tasmanian Aboriginal (Palawa) activist and lawyer who has campaigned for social, political and legal changes.

Mansell is partly of Palawa descent from the Trawlwoolway group on his mother's side and from the Pinterrairer group on his father's side, both of which are Indigenous groups from north-eastern Tasmania.

From an early age, Mansell was a radical protester about the status and treatment of Tasmanian Aboriginal people within the community.

1970

However he discovered that mere protest was an ineffective measure to achieve his aims of land rights and improved conditions, and the radical tactics that he and other Indigenous rights protesters employed in the 1970s were abandoned.

1972

In 1972, he and others set up the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, of which he was chairman and legal manager.

1975

These articles were subsequently found by the Federal Court of Australia in the case Eatock v Bolt to have contravened Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

1983

Mansell undertook a degree in law at the University of Tasmania, graduating in 1983.

He began a career as a lawyer, attempting to defend the rights of Aboriginal people, whilst pursuing an agenda of reform.

Since then, he has become a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, and the High Court of Australia.

1987

Mansell was named "Aboriginal of the Year", at the 1987 National NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) Awards, and played a crucial role in the drafting of legislation for the Native Title Act 1993 that arose from the Mabo v Queensland case.

Mansell was an independent candidate to represent Tasmania in the Australian Senate at the 1987 Australian federal election held on 11 July 1987.

He was unsuccessful, receiving 1,102 votes (21,451 votes were required to win a seat).

Subjects that Mansell has written about include the Australian Constitution, Aboriginal customary law, cultural and intellectual property, the Human Genome Project, land rights and Aboriginal sovereignty.

In April 1987, at a conference sponsored by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi in Libya called "A Conference on Peace and Revolution in the Pacific", Mansell spoke to a large international audience.

To gain international attention for the cause of Tasmanian Aboriginal people, Mansell established an alternative Aboriginal passport.

1988

In 1988 he secured recognition for the passport from Gaddafi's Libya, which declared it valid for travel to Libya.

Mansell said he had Gaddafi's support for the establishment of an independent Aboriginal nation.

Mansell has suggested that Indigenous Australians should be granted a separate state or territory within Australia, which would be governed by Indigenous people and allow for greater self-determination

1990

He was also the founding secretary of the Aboriginal Provisional Government in 1990.

Mansell also played senior football for North Hobart in the Tasmanian Football League

2001

In 2001 Mansell stated that "there were more phoney than real Aborigines in Tasmania and more than half the voters in the 1996 ATSIC election were not Aboriginal".

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre brought court challenges against the claims of Aboriginality of a number of candidates to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.

2008

In February 2008 Mansell said on Australian radio that although he was happy that the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would offer a formal public apology on behalf of all Australians for the treatment of the "Stolen Generations", he referred to it as a "half-measure" if it was without compensation.

On the first anniversary of the apology, Mansell said that the apology had not improved the situation of Aborigines, nor had the government stopped welfare policies based on race.

2009

Mansell was one of 16 pale-skinned Aboriginal people named in a series of articles written by Andrew Bolt and published in the Herald Sun newspaper in 2009.

2016

In 2016 his book Treaty and Statehood: Aboriginal self-determination was published.

In the wider Australian community, Mansell has often been seen as controversial, having resorted to confrontational tactics to push issues of Indigenous rights and past mistreatment onto the public agenda in Tasmania.

Mansell has often been involved in public confrontation with politicians and the media.

One area where he is most in conflict with the Australian and Tasmanian governments is over the issue of Aboriginal Sovereignty.

In his 2016 book Treaty and Statehood: Aboriginal Self-determination, Mansell advocated for a seventh Australian state to be run by indigenous people on land currently deeded to native title, complete with its own state parliament and court system.

He also said that such a state may not be created for "at least two or three decades", and felt that treaties or designated seats in the Federal Parliament are more politically likely.

2020

In January 2020, Mansell (as chairman of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania) issued a three-page statement saying he does not believe Bruce Pascoe has Indigenous ancestry, and Pascoe should stop claiming he does.