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Commonwealth fined after child's hands caught fire at Questacon

Photo: ABC News (Australia)

What happened

The commonwealth has been fined $140,000 over an incident where a nine-year-old girl's hands caught fire at Questacon in 2022, when she was touching a plasma globe after using an alcohol-based hand sanitiser.

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