Koori concepts of consciousness and responsibility demand that the responsibility for managing relationships is taken by all parts of the kinship system, to differing degrees, because all of the parts regulate each other. Deborah Rose reached a similar understanding in the Victoria River District of the Northern Territory.^[25] Leadership in the singular did not exist; it was actually stratified through various senior clan members. The concept of ‘a leader’ within Koori society is misunderstood in some oral histories, in much anthropology and within colonial and later history.