Lenora Thaker is a proud Meriam and Wagedagam woman born and living on Gimuy-Walubarra Yidinji country in Far North Queensland.   She is a descendant of the Torres Strait Islanders of Malaytown (a makeshift village cobbled around Cairns swampland, late 1800s to early 1950s), who are the inspiration for her first novel.

If you could have dinner with any historical figure, who would it be and why?

Alfred Cort Haddon - British anthropologist and ethnologist (1855-1940)