[1] The branch is part of the Wellington Central Labour Electorate Committee.

It is a "special branch" under the Labour Party constitution which means that members may live outside the boundaries of the Wellington Central electorate and do not have to be students.

The branch was invigorated by Labour activists in the 1960s and helped to organise large opposition protests to the Vietnam War.

Andrew Little, former leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, was President of the Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association 1988-89.

[3] In 2011 VicLabour members put forward a variety of submissions to try to prevent the VSM bill coming into force and attended a number of protests and readings of the bill at Parliament.