Aboriginal people cannot understand how non-Aborigines get upset about the needs of the fourth world and think Aboriginal people in Australia 'get heaps'. Further, Aboriginal people cannot understand why they always appear to be left out in the promotion of the 'community', and they get frustrated at the technical use of the English language or the use of what is called 'high English' when non-Aboriginal people are meant to be communicating with them. This is not a license to use some colonial type version of the English language, although Aboriginal English may be quite acceptable such as, 'I'm the Boss'. The notion of 'Boss' usually creates the impression of utmost seriousness and inflexibility. When coupled with its pretence to authoritarianism, it becomes incongruous and causes such laughter amongst Aboriginals even if at the time they could not display it.
Aboriginals usually consider their old people or lawmen and women as 'Bosses'.
This is usually with endearment and respect. Non-Aboriginal experts are often considered with suspicion and with a sense of have 'they no shame' to talk about us like that. This is different to Aboriginal people asking non-Aboriginal people to speak on their behalf, although this can be, and often is, a source of conflict within Aboriginal society itself. There are other non-Aboriginal people who this would not apply to. Respect has to be earned and won from Aboriginal people.