Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources
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Oct 1, 2026
Hayley ChannerHOST
Um, or the what next is very broad and not specific enough, but your recommendations are very clear and specific.
Hayley ChannerHOST
So if I was a policymaker in Canberra in the Department of Industry Science and Resources, or I was, you know, at Lynas or Lucca, I could actually understand what it is that you're, um, recommending.
Hayley ChannerHOST
So take us through your report-
Naoise McDonaghGUEST
Mm
WambaHOST
The risk was foreseeable, a magistrate has found, after a nine-year-old girl suffered second-degree burns when alcohol-based hand sanitizer ignited as she touched a plasma globe at Questacon.
WambaHOST
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources, which oversees the Science Center, was fined $140,000 in the SCT Magistrate Court on Thursday.
WambaHOST
The department previously pleaded guilty to failing to comply with its health and safety duties, exposing people to a risk of death or serious injury.
WambaHOST
The maximum penalty for the offense is $1.5 million.
Renee BigatkoHOST
The department that oversees Questacon has been fined $140,000 today after a young visitor was injured while interacting with the plasma ball exhibit back in 2022.
Renee BigatkoHOST
The Department of Industry, Science and Resources says it deeply regrets the incident and sincerely apologizes to the victim and their family.
Renee BigatkoHOST
Police allege a 42-year-old man was clocked at nearly 100Ks in 60 zones during a police chase in an alleged stolen car through Canberra's inner south this morning.
Renee BigatkoHOST
The man's also accused of driving on the wrong side of the road on a number of occasions, crossing median strips, and refusing a roadside drug test.
Tom LudlowHOST
The audit office refused to provide further information about which recommendations had fallen idle and there is no suggestion that Defence or the Tax Office have not actioned recommendations.
Tom LudlowHOST
The most recent review of post-audit action targeting the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, and published in April, showed that the bar for a partially implemented or not implemented finding was relatively low.
Tom LudlowHOST
For the Department's one partially implemented recommendation of 16 in total, the Audit Office found that it did not have performance reporting measures for the National Meteorological Institute, but it didn't map them to relative principles.
Tom LudlowHOST
A department spokesperson said at the time it remained committed to ensuring timely and fulsome implementation of all audit office recommendations.
Lee HickinGUEST
Look, I can really only speak with any authority on the National AI Centre because it's the only one I have that authority and really understand.
Lee HickinGUEST
But I think the important thing to take from that is if you kind of look at it almost as as a triangle, and there's actually a fourth one in that now becoming a square that I've called a triangle, which is the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Tech and Policy Division,
Johanna WeaverHOST
which sits alongside
Lee HickinGUEST
myself.