Labor’s plan to sell ‘living memories of the ANZAC legacy’ under heavy scrutiny

Liberal Senator Jess Collins criticises the Albanese government’s plan to sell off 67 historic ADF properties across the nation, including Victoria Barracks in Sydney’s Paddington. “The thing about a place like Victoria Barracks Sydney ... it’s not just an old sandstone building as you said, it’s a living memory of the ANZAC legacy,” Ms Collins told News24 host Chris Kenny. “The ANZAC spirit … wasn’t something that was born on the shores of Gallipoli; it was something within the Australian men and women that went out to fight for us that were here as well in Australia and New Zealand. “A place like Victoria Barracks Sydney … those walls are the living memory of that.”