The federal government will sell off $3bn in historic defence properties around the country, after a major audit of government land holdings and amid efforts to open up land for new housing development and public spaces.
Defence sites – including Victoria Barracks in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane – will be sold after the multi-year audit, with public servants relocated to modern office spaces, and heritage sites – including the cabinet rooms used by John Curtin at the height of the second world war in Melbourne – opened to the public.
The defence minister, Richard Marles, released the audit of the 3 million-hectare defence esta
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