A NSW Labor government would deliver $4 million funding and a pledge to use funding levers to ensure industry compliance with codes of conduct to support the drive for cultural change in the music industry. 

Under a NSW Labor Government every performance that receives public funding will need to comply with a code of conduct in order to be eligible to receive taxpayer money.  

The Government would use funding levers to ensure industry compliance with codes of conduct developed by the newly established federal Centre for Arts and Entertainment Workplaces.   

“Every person has the right to feel safe and be free from discrimination in their workplace and that does not change if that person is working in the music industry," Jodie Harrison MP, NSW Shadow Minister for Women and NSW Shadow Minister for Prevention of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, said.  

Labor is committing  $4 million over four years for the development of state-specific resources, programs, and training, in line with recommendations of the Raising their Voices report. 

Labor would also deliver $2 million over four years to Support Act, the music industry’s charity, delivering crisis relief services to musicians and music workers across all genres. 

This commitment is in response to the ‘Raising Their Voices’ report into the national review of sexual harm, sexual harassment and systemic discrimination in the contemporary Australian music industry and recommendations for reform.  

Of those surveyed for the review, 55 per cent have experienced some form of workplace sexual harassment and sexual harm in their career; in the past five years, 33 per cent of those surveyed said they had experienced at least one incident of sexual harassment.