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Target : magazine of the Eureka Youth League. (Sydney : Eureka Youth League of Australia, 1962-1968)

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The issue on display, for June 1964, has a photograph of the Beatles on the cover and an article on "Beatles and Beatlemania." The article stresses the working class backgrounds of the individual Beatles, and ends with a reference to the then British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas Home, a Conservative, and the Labour Party leader Harold Wilson,

Sir Alec Home promptly claimed credit for them [i.e. the Beatles] and was as promptly accused of political clothes-stealing by Mr. Wilson. Conservative candidates have been officially advised to mention them wherever possible in their speeches. (p. 3)