Indigenous Australians are strongly culturally linked to the land. They weren’t a sea faring people, unlike the Polynesians.
They did have boats (dugouts), but they weren’t suited for the ocean.
They did have boats (dugouts), but they weren’t suited for the ocean.
https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/atsi-collection/cul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Canoes
Also indigenous to the Sahul
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torres_Strait_Islanders
who lived on islands and travelled between PNG and Queensland, Australia but didn't venture south past the Great Barrier Reef and to New ZEaland - but did have the boats and seafaring skills.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassar_people
who lived in (modern) Indonesia but routinely traded and fished between Northern Australia and China
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trepanging
again, they never (to current knowledge) travelled around and past the Great Barrier Reef.