It's ironic because Mansell is very white, is literally trained as a "white law" lawyer (surprising no one, lol), and may not actually have any native Tasmanian heritage...

Yet because he is a loudmouth from a "powerful" family with Aboriginal roots (possibly from the "big island"), and because no one has to PROVE their heritage, anymore (provided the community "accepts" you as such), he apparently speaks for all of them, even those on Cape Barren Island (where the boat washed up), which, I suspect, he has never even lived on, let alone having direct family there...

Eugh. He's like the race grifter to end all race grifters, though. Hence this...