From 2014, then why hasn't she taken a DNA test to settle this instead of going to court.
The Palmer United party senator Jacqui Lambie says she is prepared to take a DNA test to prove her Indigenous heritage.
Lambie last week warned a Tasmanian Indigenous elder to “watch his step” after he questioned the veracity of her heritage.
In her recent maiden speech to parliament, the Tasmanian senator told of her links “over six generations to celebrated Aboriginal chieftain of the Tasmanian east coast, Mannalargenna”.
Lambie said she shared “blood, culture and history through my mother Sue Lambie’s family”.
Her claim was shot down by the chairman of the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania, Clyde Mansell, who told the ABC that Lambie was “not part” of the family.
“I’m a 65-year-old man and I’ve lived all my life being Aboriginal, and for the greatest part of my life I’ve done activities that allowed me to be looking at family trees of lots and lots of people, so it astounds me that Jacqui Lambie would make this claim,” Mansell said.
“That’s my family. And she’s not part of it.”
However, speaking to reporters in Hobart on Monday, Lambie said: “I know what’s in my blood
“If Mansell wants to take me on, I guess I’ll meet him up at the hospital and both have a DNA test and see how we go once and for all.”
