Multi-million-dollar bill to repair 'substantial' fire damage at Old Parliament House in Canberra

 A fire at an anti-government protest caused "substantial damage" to Canberra's Old Parliament House that will cost more than $4 million to repair.

Daryl Karp, the director of the heritage building's main tenant, the Museum of Australian Democracy, said discovering the extent of the damage was devastating.

The building's iconic front entrance, where political history unfolded throughout last century, "will never be the same", she said.

However, most of the damage inside the building — caused largely by smoke and water — can be fixed, with some painstaking restoration efforts.

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