Steeley, I'll get to you in a minute.
Have a much more important thing to do than answer you right now.

Toni,

My own guess is that a great many of the Aboriginal Australian's ancestors came from India.
On my travels through that country, especially in the South, I have seen many locals who looked decidedly Aboriginal Australian to me and in Otty (of rack railway fame, among other things) I was about to speak to an Aboriginal bloke that I knew casually in Sydney, but when I got close he was speaking in Hindi and I realized that I'd made a mistake.

My old mate, Guboo Ted Thomas (a respected Elder of the Yuin people on the South Coast of NSW), went to India and locals would, at first meeting, always think that he was Indian.

Which proves nothing, of course, but Dingoes look a lot like the native dog of India (Indian pariah dog), and the Dingoes had to come from somewhere.

Dear ALTRAV,

You write;

"Have a much more important thing to do than answer you right now."

Hopefully it is arranging a return to the homeland.

Che liberazione!

G'day IS MISE...

I'll be buggered, mate. I must've had a severe flaw in my education, but it's the first time I've ever heard our indigenous people originated from India. I've always subscribed to the theory they've been here for at least ten thousand years. Therefore I never thought to explore their origins any further back than that.

I've tripped around the Sub-Continent a bit, and you're right, some, especially those in the south, even in West Bengal do have a close likeness to our full blood Aboriginals. Fascinating history lesson for me at least, thank you IS MISE.

Furthermore, your knowledge of English grammar is incredible, you've employed terms I've not heard since my school days? I know a little of your background, are you sure you weren't a school teacher at one time?

Steeley, I could not agree with you more, on your opening line, and to quote you;
"I am completely clueless"........
Yes you are, but take heart, I'm here to give you a few 'clues'.
First clue is I don't have to be anything but BORN HERE, to comply with the International terms of reference as to my being an Aussie, by birth, not by nature and demeanor or any other factor which you obviously gauge a persons 'nationality', by.
So old sock, anyone with half a clue knows that.
You are barking at shadows if you can't see what I've been saying forever, and that is, for example in my case, it is clear, even though my folks were wogs, and because I was born here, that describes me as an Aussie with Italian heritage, by your reasoning.
By my reasoning, I am an Aussie born wog with an Aussie passport.
See nothing could be simpler to understand, even for you.
Now as for ALL these benefits I am enjoying, I think you must have me confused with the abo's.
I/we, have always carried ourselves without ANY handouts and freebees from ANYONE.
You know this is true because we are a proud people and that's our downfall.
I/we have always had private health insurance, still do, at a cost of a few dollars short of $500 a month.
Never accessed and still don't or intend to avail myself of any govt handouts like the pension or whatever else there is going on out there.
Steeley, am I boring you?
Can you say the same about not being a burden on the Aussie economy?
Have you set yourself up from an early age to be self sufficient in retirement, Hmmmm?
Now listen to me you abo loving moron.
I have proven myself, head down bum up, lived to work and not worked to live and so on and so forth.
You cretin spewing out all that sh!t about abo's and abo land, you are amongst the lowest form of Aussie with YOUR arrogant smart arse attitude.

G'day, O Sung Wu,

No, mate, I was never a teacher but I had some very good teachers.

Re. India and the locals, here's a bit from The National Geographic,

"Genetic evidence suggests that just over 4 millennia ago a group of Indian travellers landed in Australia and stayed. The evidence emerged a few years ago after a group of Aboriginal men’s Y chromosomes matched with Y chromosomes typically found in Indian men. Up until now, the exact details, though, have been unclear.

But Irina Pugach from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology may have recently solved the thousand-year-old case. 4,000 years before the First Fleet landed on our fair shores, Indian adventurers had already settled and were accepted into the Indigenous Australian culture."
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/four-thousand-years-ago-indians-landed-in-australia.aspx