ABSTRACT
My intention here is to indicate that differing interactional styles provide a basis for understanding the disadvantage that Australian Aborigines can suffer in Australian legal settings. I want to draw out two sets of features and show how these can be used to characterise some of the differences between the interactional styles of Aborigines in remote Aboriginal communities and of certain non-Aborigines. I will treat this latter group as being Anglo white middle class (henceforth AWMC). I make no apologies for restricting the group in this way: for better or worse it is the group that has come to exercise the greatest influence on remote Aboriginal communities and, as a member of it, it is the group I am most familiar with.
