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QUeensland Alcohol-related violence and Night Time Economy Monitoring (QUANTEM): Final report
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QUeensland Alcohol-related violence and Night Time Economy Monitoring (QUANTEM): Final report

Peter Miller, Kerri Coomber, Jason Ferris, Michelle Burn, Thea Vakidis, Michael Livingston, Nicholas Droste, Nicholas Taylor, Cheneal Puljevic, Dominque De Andrade, …
Deakin University
2019
Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/10779/DRO/DU:20580051
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Policy and Administration
In 2016, the Queensland government introduced the Tackling Alcohol-Fuelled Violence (TAFV) policy to reduce injuries, assaults and deaths due to excessive alcohol consumption in Safe Night Precincts (SNP) across Queensland. As a respected practitioner in the Australian music industry, I acted as an industry liaison. I connected the research team to the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) who shared historical data mapping the number of live music performances in QLD SNPs from the 2000s to 2018s reporting periods. Additionally, my reputation enabled informant interviews with venue proprietors situated in the focal SNP of the Fortitude Valley, adding qualitative data to the significant quantitative data set of this research. Research Background In 2016, the Queensland government introduced the Tackling Alcohol-Fuelled Violence (TAFV) policy to reduce injuries, assaults and deaths due to excessive alcohol consumption in Safe Night Precincts (SNP) across Queensland. Nightlife precincts are sites of dense and varied cultural activity subject to complex government regulation and commercial imperatives (Carah, N., Regan, S., Goold, L., Rangiah, L., Miller, P., and Ferris, J., 2020). Commercial operators in these areas are subject to conflicting forces between cultural activation activities, encouraging high alcohol consumption to sustain their businesses and policymaker’s attempts to contain excessive consumption (Rowe and Bavinton 2011). This report commissioned by the Queensland government evaluated the TAFV policy's efficacy concerning alcohol-related harms and patterns of alcohol consumption. Additionally, the report assessed TAFV policy effects in areas of cultural habits of alcohol consumption, reduction of violence and the effect on the night-time economy. Research Contribution As a creative practice researcher, my connections to industry facilitated research outcomes concerning the national peak body for songwriters, the Australian Performing Rights Association (APRA) who collate live performance data. The analysis of this data is nuanced and required industry knowledge to reveal appropriate trends for this report. Additionally, the research team conducted informant interviews with venue proprietors situated in the Fortitude Valley. These perspectives added qualitative data to the significant quantitative data set of this research. Research Significance The government accepted 28 recommendations in some capacity of the 38 proposed in this report. The informant data led to many of the recommendations focusing on protecting the cultural value of original live music. The APRA data and venue interviews contributed toward 2 Q1 publications in the Drug and Alcohol Review and the International Journal of Cultural Studies.

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