Indians from India arrived in Australia about 4,000 years ago , a genetic study says . Their analysis supported the theory that indigenous groups in Australia , New Guinea and the Philippines are descendants of a wave of migration out of Africa tens of thousands of years ago . That means they arrived long before European begun settling the continent . The research challenges the idea that Australia was isolated for nearly 40,000 years . The Indians may have brought dingoes and new farming techniques to Australia .
Indians from India arrived in Australia about 4,000 years ago , a genetic study says . That means they arrived long before European begun settling the continent . The research challenges the idea that Australia was isolated for nearly 40,000 years . The Indians may have brought dingoes and new farming techniques to Australia .