How did the Aborigines get to Australia?

Yoinked from Wikipedia

“The earliest human remains found to date are that of Mungo Man which have been dated at about 40,000 years old. It is generally believed that Aboriginal people are the descendants of a single migration into the continent, although a minority propose that there were three waves of migration, most likely island hopping by boat during periods of low sea levels”

Another helpful wiki link that details the Immigration history of Australia

“The immigration history of Australia began with the initial human migration to the continent around 50,000 years ago when the ancestors of Australian Aborigines arrived on the continent via the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and New Guinea.”

Sorry to use Wikipedia @flutherother but this page might also be of interest because it talks about the reasons migration (land bridges/lower sea levels) may have occurred to Australia. link

According to a show I watched about the genome project, Africans may have been able to walk/swim/boat to Australia prior to it becoming an island.

Wow, this is amazing timing. Today I just read a chapter in Guns, Germs, and Steel that talked about the expansion of humans to Australia and North America. Humans expanded out of Africa and into Asia by 1,000,000 BC. They reached the Pacific Islands by traveling by watercraft and expanding to any islands that were visible from from other islands. They were ahead of their time, in a way, when they invented watercraft; only 30,000 years later did watercraft come into use anywhere else in the world. They slowly expanded through indonesia. After a while, they eventually dicovered islands that were otherwise out of sight from any inhabited islands. At this time, New Guinea and Australia are connected by a land bridge (the ice age lowered sea levels). Once they discovered New Guinea, they were able to walk to Australia by 40,000 BC.

They were created by God.

OK, thanks everyone. I think that pretty well answers the question.

By having an above average BMI. The genes for this can still be found today.

I think they were transported by space craft.

Recent discoveries have been made by analysing DNA from the hair of aborigines

Yes, @flutherother but that doesn’t answer the question about how they got there 70,000 years ago. My answer stands; it was UFO’s (Un-identified, Floating, Objects).