The federal government has walked back plans to sell the historic site, prompting questions about its future and upkeep
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Before February, when the defence department announced its intention to sell Australia’s oldest active military site, only a handful of people would show up for its weekly public tours.
Now more than 100 queue outside the sandstone-ensconced doors of Sydney’s Victoria Barracks every Thursday, with crowds hoping to see the city’s premier military installation before things change for the first time since 1848.