Born Michael Alexander Mansell
5 June 1951 (age 73)
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Residence(s) Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Alma mater University of Tasmania
Occupation Lawyer, activist
Mansell was born in 1951 in Launceston, Tasmania, the son of Clyda and Clarence Mansell. He is a third-generation Cape Barren Islander, descended from the unions of Bass Strait sealers and Aboriginal women, including Watanimarina and Thomas Beeton (parents of Lucy Beeton) and Black Judy and Edward Mansell.[2]