Jacqui Lambie on home turf: 'I reckon I can do 20 more years'

Submitted by Paul Daley on Mon, 27/06/2016 - 3:08pm

The blunt Tasmanian, running for the Senate again, tells of her ‘chaotic’ days in Clive Palmer’s party, her relief that the Pauline Hanson comparisons have stopped – and why she prefers Clinton to Trump for the White House

The last embers of daylight dance in silver streaks over the gunmetal grey of Bass Strait, out there to the left as we snake up the highway towards Devonport. A distant tanker marks the meeting of leaden clouds and horizon.

On our right is the monolith of the disused pulp mill, its totemic chimney breathless and rusting – metaphoric, perhaps, for Tasmania’s industrial decline – not least that of Burnie, a seaside town in the northwest that knows itself, proudly, as the “City of Makers”.

If I make mistakes, I bloody well stand up and say so

She's got resilience like no other woman I've seen

She’s still a politician, but she doesn’t sound much like one

I just don’t see the difference between a man and a woman ... I don’t cry victim because I’m a woman