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To most 'white' people at the time of Federation, being a loyal Australian meant being loyal also to Queen Victoria and the British Empire. In this context the political philosophy of the Bulletin was considered radical. However, the Bulletin agreed with the conservatives about having a 'White Australia' policy. See also Racism.

A Republican Form of Government.
One Person, One Vote.
Complete Secularization and Freedom of State Education.
Reform of the Criminal Code and Prison System.
A United Australia and Protection against the World.
Australia for the Australians.- The cheap Chinaman, the cheap Nigger, and the cheap European pauper to be absolutely excluded.
A State Bank, the issue of bank-notes to be a State monopoly.
The direct election of Ministers by Parliament, instead of Party Government or rather Government by Contradiction.
A new Parliamentary System – one House to be elected by constituencies as at present; the other to be chosen by the whole country voting as one Constituency.
A Universal System of Compulsory Life Insurance.
The entire Abolition of the Private Ownership of Land.
The Referendum.
The Abolition of Titles of so-called 'nobility'.

The Bulletin, 17 June 1893, cited in Manning Clark (ed.), Sources of Australian History, Oxford University Press, London, 1970 (first edition 1957), pp. 446-447.

On 30 April 1898, the Bulletin declared its support for the Draft Constitution that was about to be put to the vote of the people in the June referendum.