The majority of the Aboriginal population lives in ‘remote’ Australia, as defined in Chapter 2. In this region, there are basically four forms of Aboriginal community: government settlements, church missions, various Aboriginal-owned or occupied properties, and encampments of Aborigines on European-owned (pastoral) properties. In this chapter is summarised the available information on those Aborigines who fall in the last-mentioned group, that is those in pastoral stations. Again, the somewhat piecemeal components of the outline cannot be drawn together with ease or comprehensiveness. This is so for three reasons. Firstly, because Aborigines on pastoral stations are employed in a scattered private setting, the available information, such as it is, resides largely in individual studies of certain areas or groups, rather than in overall surveys. The review relies, therefore, fairly heavily upon the few available studies: the Gibb Committee (1973); Gruen (1966); and Stevens (1974), all in the Northern Territory; Scott (1971a) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and Stanley (1976) in central Australia. Secondly, the pattern of association between Aborigines and the stations has varied considerably.