Old Parliament House (museum Of Australian Democracy)Old Parliament House (Museum of Australian Democracy)

Staff at the museum describe mostly subtle encounters: voices and footsteps in empty halls, cigar smoke in the Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Room, and people glimpsed from the corner of the eye. Security guards speak of a figure in a suit, nicknamed the Well Dressed Ghost, roaming downstairs at night, and one staffer smelled smoke alone in the Prime Minister's suite in 2019 shortly before news broke that cigar-loving Bob Hawke had died.