In line with expectations, the NHS data reveal a significantly positive relationship between non-Indigenous income and reported health status. While Indigenous people were more likely to report being in poor or fair health than other Australians for each income group, the more interesting finding was the lack of significant difference in self-reported health status between low and high-income Indigenous families. Why should there be a different relationship between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations? One possibility is that there is a difference in the patterns of self-assessed health status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, although this runs counter to research findings to date for populations in non-remote areas. Another possibility is that differences in self-reported health status may be partly explained by difference in age structure between the two populations, given that health status generally declines for older people. To test for this, the data are age-standardised. This involves adjusting the Indigenous statistics using the age distribution of the non-Indigenous population as weights. When this is done, there is still no relationship evident between income and health status for the Indigenous population, except when the measure of raw income is used.