Indo-Australian connection

I have previously come across online materials alluding to a genetic connection between Indians and Australian aboriginals, a connection which did not seem very alien considering that some Indian faces do resemble that of Aboriginals in structure.  Anyway, what brings me to start this thread is that I saw the movie "The Proposition" last night, which incidentally was a very good film.  It is set in Australia in the latter half of the 19th century, it would seem; a time when the whites were pretty much disposing of the native population en masse in a typical Anglo-colonial style.  The movie had a number of insignificant aboriginal characters and, for the first time, I heard what I assume is the Aboriginals' language.  It rolled off the actor's tongue using strikingly similar accents to those I have heard on Hindi speakers.

Edited by Zagros - 02-May-2007 at 16:28

I see, thanks for the info.  I just find the similarity in "accents" remarkable.  I do notice a difference in Indian accents, but I always notice that there is an underlying phonology, so to speak. 

Is the Dravidian language family native to the Indian sub-continent? Or did it come from some where else to the Indian sub-continent, just like the Indo-Aryan language family did later?
Perhaps If there is any connection between Aboriginal and Indian languages/peoples, it is with the languages that the indigenous people in the Indian sub-continent spoke before they adopted Dravidian and Aryan languages. Maybe this is why there is no study done regarding this connection, because there are no surviving pre-Dravidian or pre-Aryan Indian languages to be studied. Perhaps people in the Indian sub-continent adopted foreign languages but kept the accents from their very first languages.


Edited by omshanti - 10-May-2007 at 04:48