{
  "id": 9490028,
  "title": "'Not an isolated event': Questacon fined after child's hands catch fire",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/not-an-isolated-event-questacon-fined-after-childs-hands-catch-fire",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-24T04:24:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ABC News AU",
    "slug": "abc-news-au",
    "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/act-questacon-fined-child-hands-caught-fire-plasma-globe/107189858"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}