Funders:
  • Music NT
Collaborators: 
  • Music NT 
  • Charles Darwin University
  • Menzies School of Health Research 
Aims:

Between 2023-2025, Menzies evaluated MusicNT’s All Good Project, including their peer-led harm reduction festival program as well as their music venue safety program. The project sought to understand what it means to keep safe at music venues and festivals in the NT. 

Objectives:

To evaluate the value of the All Good Project and inform project design into the future. The project sought to document the harassment, safety and wellbeing experiences of patrons and staff from music venues in the NT.

Summary:

The project explores safety and wellbeing strategies, harassment, active bystander behaviours and alcohol and other drug use at festivals and music venues in the NT. The project has a mixed-methods evaluation design that includes surveying at a major NT festival, pre and post training surveys for staff of live music venues as well as qualitative interviews with staff of live music venues.

Implications for policy and practice:

The evaluation has built the first NT-specific evidence base on sexual violence, discrimination and aggression in music settings. Evaluation insights are now informing future program delivery, training, policy and community education to foster safer, connected music communities across the Territory. This will have practical benefit for patrons, staff and performers at live music venues and festivals in the NT by improving active bystander behaviours and safety and wellbeing support services.

Our research has found:

Click the link to download the 2025 All Good Project Key Learnings Report 2025
 

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Project dates:
  • 01/01/2023 – 01/12/2025
Publications

Wardle, F., Piatkowski, T., Clifford, S., Peacock, A., Dietze, P., Lim, M., … Wright, C. J. C. (2024). Safe beats down under: investigating the support of drug checking at a regional festival in the Northern Territory, Australia. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2024.2330938