page_title: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association
section_title: Campaign against voluntary student membership
hierarchical_section_title: Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association / History / 2000s / Campaign against voluntary student membership
caption_attribution_description: Max Hardy
context_page_description: The Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association is the official student association at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. VUWSA was established in 1899 as the Victoria University College Students' Society.
  Following the enactment of the Education Amendment Bill, VUWSA moved from being a compulsory students' association to a voluntary one in 2012.
  VUWSA funds the student magazine Salient, and student radio station Salient FM.
context_section_description: In October 2009, Act on Campus orchestrated a special general meeting, and successfully passed a motion "that VUWSA actively supports the Education (Freedom of Association) Amendment Bill" by 45 votes to 35. The bill's aim was to introduce voluntary student membership. However, President Jasmine Freemantle subsequently announced that the motion had been declared null and void by the association's lawyer.
  VUWSA actively campaigned against the passing of voluntary student membership in 2010.
caption: Max Hardy (President 2010) at an anti-VSM protest outside Heather Roy's office in 2010
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