The image above is obviously wrong, deliberately. So is the original by Michelangelo.
God isn t a gorilla. God even isn t.
Perusing through the scientific record, there is strong evidence that other species of sapiens have trodden the earth. There is a strong chance too that we, the sapiens of sapiens, managed to make them disappear with our rat-like breeding and our avaricious needs. Unless they vanished from lack of survival skills in changing habitats. unless they were wiped out by disease or other accidental events.
And in the paradigm of evolution, the hominid ancestor the precursor of the apes would have given ape-lines characteristics to gorillas (as gorillas), and to sapiens in various formats, as non-cross-breedable cousins. As mentioned before I believe Homo sapiens (meaning wise ) sapiens (twice wise) us, humans was (and is) a weak species that had to become more astutely cunning to survive. (In my humble opinion our second sapiens should actually be tellin
Over the next few months we will see some pretty extraordinary inflation , which the Reserve Bank and the government should ignore as a false sign of a strong economy. They should remain clear that more stimulus is needed. If there is one guarantee in economic debate, it is that as soon as any sign of economic strength occurs, conservative commentators and politicians will start worrying about inflation. The Economist has run an article.
Inflation will reappear in Australia – but that shouldn't mean the end of stimulus | Inflation theguardian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theguardian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Could a change be afoot in the way Australians vote in federal elections?
The Coalition government may be eyeing a shift to optional preferential voting as used in New South Wales which allows voters to simply vote “1” or allocate only a partial list of preferences on their ballot, instead of a full ordering of preferences for every candidate.
The proposal was included in a series of potentially revolutionary changes to our electoral system that were quietly released by a parliamentary committee in December, when few people were paying attention.
The joint standing committee on electoral matters claimed a shift to optional preferential voting would help address rising rates of “informal voting” in NSW caused by the differences between the state and federal systems. The reason: a valid vote at the state level with less than a full list of preferences would be invalid if repeated at a federal election.
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The Reserve Bank, its operations and its key policy objective of holding inflation between 2 and 3 per cent would be the focus of a review under a Labor government amid warnings the institution is being left behind by overseas central banks.
Oppositions and critics often call for reviews of particular policies, but demanding a review of a cornerstone of economic policy such as the Reserve Bank is highly unusual.
But in a sign of how much economic policy is in flux in the wake of both the global financial crisis and the coronavirus recession, the step by Labor to promise its own review of the bank is one that has some support within the government and the broader economic community.