From the article: "Rex Gilroy is aware that his claims will not be acceptable to the hard-core 'Out of Africa' school of anthropologists, but he believes that this attitude will be changed as further pre-Aboriginal fossil finds come to light in this most ancient of continents."
I believe the Bega endocast represents a race of ancestral hominids, which in time evolved into a proto-Homo erectus race from which Homo erectus proper evolved, here in Australia before he did anywhere else, to in turn evolve into anatomically modern humans, probably by around 300,000 years ago (as suggested by 'late' Homo erectus and 'archaic' Homo sapien mineralised skull-types from a central western NSW site in his possession), well before Homo sapiens 'first' appeared in Africa by around 150,000 years ago according to current evidence.
Lester believes the damn thing was a monkey. But you and Gilroy go ahead and keep believing the other, montag813. At least Gilroy characterizes his belief as such.
I agree. The jury is still out on this. I'm just having a bit of fun atg the expense of those morons who go around museums telling kids it's all lies...evolution, fossils, the whole works.