The Bulletin was considered politically radical at the time of Federation. It claims not to be prejudiced on the basis of race or colour.

Focus questions
RaQ15 Asses the claim that race and colour do not matter based on what the document says about people from Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands.
RaQ16 Review Document 4. What double standard can you detect?

A LOWER CIVILISATION?

Australia doesn't care whether the Asiatic was born in Asia or in Sheol [sic. a biblical reference?]. It doesn't care whether he is black, or brown, or bright-green with red feet and a blue stripe down the back. So far from excluding the Asiatic solely on account of his race and color, neither his race nor his color have anything to do with the matter. Australians object to the whole Asiatic, African and Kanaka tribe because they work for wages on which only a person far lower in the scale of civilisation than the white Australian can live, therefore, where they are numerous, the white man, in order to get work, has to come down to their wage-level, and, in consequence, to their civilisation level. It objects to them because they introduce a lower civilisation. It objects because they intermarry with white women, and thereby lower the white type, and because they have already created the beginnings of a mongrel race, that has many of the vices of both its parents and few of the virtues of either. If JUDAS CHAMBERLAIN [Joseph Chamberlain, British Secretary of State for the Colonies] can find a black, or brown, or yellow race, in Asia or Africa, that has as high a standard of civilisation and intelligence as the whites, that is as progressive as the whites, as brave, as sturdy, as good nation-making material, and that can intermarry with the whites without the mixed progeny showing signs of deterioration, that race is welcome in Australia regardless of colour.

Bulletin, Sydney, 22 June 1901, p. 6.