So, where's Australia's chemical plant security programme?

"The Department of Homeland Security has preliminarily labeled more than 200 chemical facilities, including university laboratories, at highest risk for a potential terrorist attack.

DHS has winnowed this number from a pool of about 7,000 facilities under review in its chemical plant security program."

Read the article in Chemical & Engineering News here.

So far as I can tell, in Australia the National Counter-Terrorism Committee is responsible for this stuff.

Just to set your minds at ease, here is the National Counter-Terrorism Plan (second edition, September 2005)  Concerns regarding chemicals are addressed in section 3.7 on page 17 of the pdf.