Mansfield too much focus on self-publicity, as opposed to publicity for the town. The issue was raised again after his prominent role in Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington's homecoming ceremony following her Gold Medal successes at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games. In April 2017, Sophie Whitby was elected to represent the Mansfield district as Member of Youth Parliament, on a manifesto which included promoting equality for the LGBT community. Benjamin Bradley has been the constituency (Conservative) Member of Parliament since May 2017, succeeding Sir Alan Meale (Labour), who served the town for thirty years. From 2010 the Parliamentary Constituency boundaries were realigned
Mansfield State High School medal Olympic diver, Matthew Mitcham. Mansfield students and teaching staff are allocated a House in which they remain for their entire enrolment period at the school. This allocation is organised by the first letter of their family name. The four houses are named after people renowned for their work in peace: The members of successful bands Violent Soho and The Jungle Giants attended Mansfield State High School. Mansfield has also had four divers go through the school, now all representing Australia at an international level, Loudy Wiggins (Bronze Medalist at Sydney), Matthew Mitcham, Sharleen Stratton (Gold Medalist) and Scott Robertson.