[1] Young Labour has worked on issues ranging from climate change and improved rental housing standards to liquor law reform and to opposing voluntary student membership.

These are advanced by Young Labour members playing an active role in debates at the regional and annual conferences of the party.

The Youth Vice-President is an ex officio role on the committee, and sits on the Labour Party's governing body, New Zealand Council.

[8] The current active branches are: [needs update] In February 2018, allegations of multiple sexual assaults at the Labour youth summer school in Waihi by a 20-year-old man emerged.

[9] The Police subsequently launched an investigation and laid five indecent assault charges against the alleged perpetrator, before withdrawing one of them, citing an administrative error.

[10][11] Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, was not informed of the allegations immediately, and learnt of them from a journalist moments after the story was published.

[citation needed] The alleged perpetrator pleaded not guilty to six charges of indecent assault in July 2018 and was granted interim name suppression.

During the trial, the defence lawyer John Munro accused one of the victims of making up parts of history and exaggerating the incident.