 Pulsford is also remembered for his avid opposition to the White Australia policy and other forms of racial discrimination.Whilst financial editor of the "Daily Telegraph" he attacked restrictive immigration laws, and he fought against the policy in the state parliament and later in the Senate, where he was one of the few to oppose the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act.This racial tolerance, combined with his opposition to women's suffrage, has led the economist John Hawkins to describe him as "probably the least racist but perhaps the most sexist member of the Australian Senate in its first decade".