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By Jennifer Clarke, published 8/10/2007Australia’s migration and citizenship laws privilege ‘whites’ in all sorts of ways.
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A considerable number of these made it to Australia, in various waves, and formed the basis for the Aboriginal population. Much much later, what was almost certainly an even smaller subset of the original diaspora made to Europe and formed the basis of today's native European population. On that basis, it is quite likely that the average genetic difference between two white Europeans is less than the average difference between two Aboriginals.
Unfortunately I can't find any references to confirm this, although this site: http://www.biology.iastate.edu/intop/1Australia/04papers/TressaAborigOrign.htm mentions the high mtDNA diversity, whereas this paper:
http://www.promega.com/geneticidproc/ussymp6proc/antti.htm
mentions the *low* diversity of Europeans and high diversity of Africans.