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Eureka Youth League
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Eureka Youth League (1942-1967). Became the Young Socialist League.
Objectives - Abolition of nuclear weapons; ending of the White Australia policy; reforms in the apprenticeship system; equal rights to education; equal pay for women and young workers; rights for Aborigines; cessation of further migration and better conditions for migrants; reform in housing policy; improved facilities in sport and culture; reduction of voting age to eighteen; redistribution of incomes; a peoples' government and a socialist Australia.
Publicists - Brian Moynihan, Vic Slater.
Notes: The League began in Victoria in 1941 and in other states in 1942. The League was connected with the Communist Party of Australia It was affiliated with the World Federation of Democratic Youth.