Georgina Maddox’s article in the Hindu (15^th July’18) for Australia aboriginal artists’ art exhibition in New Delhi, organised by NGMA, reflects a deep thought on our own ancient past.

Maddox writes, ‘Aboriginal culture goes as far back as 60,000 to 80,000 years ago, when these communities first settled in Australia. The first evidence of their culture is to be found in the in the still visible rock art, more than 20,000 years old….’.

There is no historical evidence at all that aboriginal settled in Australia around 60,000 to 80,000 years-old; one Australian writer who recently published a book saying that ancient Ur, where the Great Flood happened that submerged the ‘inhabited world’ triggering ancient migration does not know the basics of the history on Ur, as same as Uruvela of Pali texts where the Buddha preached his First Sermon.

Ancient migration started sometime around 9^th c A.D.; migration to Simhala occurred in 6^th B.C.; Australia offers a typical study on ancient migration as most its place-names matches with the names of the places of the ‘first land’ like Malaysia.

Australian aboriginals are geographically and historically related to ancient India though Geneticists do not include Indians in their DNA study for determining the common ancestry of the Southeast Asian people. A Japanese research organisation sees Australia as part of the ancient Gondwana and this creates the whole problem.