It's is a mystery, a very good one. If one subscribes to the theory of the two land masses being together at some point you would have to go millions of years back and perhaps something like this can give one certain ideas.



More likely imo, which by no means is an expert one, if we're only looking at 4000 ago then it would have to be a migration from present day India's position and down through what is now Burma,Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Which is by no means an easy feat, and for those new arrivals on Australia's shore to then go from the very north to the very south and again across the sea to Tazmania is mind boggling, but then, 4000 years is a considerable length of time.

The Australian Aboriginals and in particular Indians of the Northern Punjab areas certainly share a an ancestor just by looking at their features.

1st question. What has sub-continent India got to do with this. When there was a land bridge the people came from New Guinea and the dingo breed is know to be directly related to a dog breed that still exists in PNG. I'd say the author is playing with words if the people who migrated are not run-of-the-mill Indians from Indonesia.

Australia has had 100's of waves of migration. Sub continent India is more prominent recently, but if you look to who have historically been coming since records were taken, Afghans, Islanders, Chinese and Indonesian have been getting here right from the get go.

India itself isn't relevant though there are people in India who resemble aboriginals.

Some say there was a mass migration from Australia to India.

My understanding is that early settlers counted 7 separate racial groups in Australia. There was pigmy's too.

I can't understand why the Chinese or the Islanders didn't overrun the place. Indonesians have been exchanging goods and mixing with the locals on the Nth Coast.

Nowadays we have to speak of aboriginals as if they only ever exhibited right-sounding behavior. This is unfortunate. I think there was some crazy stuff happening.

I thought about this a few days ago coincidentally. I decided that the Indians laid waste to the population. They never reached Tasmania, who remained primitive. I can only imagine that the migration was mixed.

At the very least it explains our shared love of cricket

This makes perfect sense. I used to work with an Indian fellow whose facial characteristics and accent reminded me of an aboriginal. I wonder whether there are any aboriginal words or languages that are derived from Indian ones?

Tongue in cheek, via restrictions of truth laws.
Indians control the Taxi and security Industry in several parts of Australia.
They employ almost exclusively Indians in the 7/11 franchise.
Sort of cool.
Go the indians, all you loser unemployed Aussies, well ?