The concept of family and kinship for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is to live within an extended family system. What this means is that they include distant relatives. Family is a fundamental part to an Aboriginal society because they are the ones that teach you how to live, how to interact with the land, and how to treat people.
Aboriginal people rarely call their family members by name, instead they use relationship terms such as mother, sister, brother, aunt or cousin. Unlike western society who generally have a nuclear family unit, Aboriginal people place importance in belonging to a group and value conforming to the obligations and responsibilities of other group members. These groups are called mobs. This would be