Assistant Minister for Defence Peter Khalil has bizarrely suggested the federal government had never made a final decision to sell Victoria Barracks, instead insisting the announced divestiture didn’t mean it would definitely be sold off.

Khalil joined 2GB Afternoons and spoke with host Michael McLaren, who questioned the government’s intentions behind the backflip.

“It just strikes me as strange the characterisation of ‘we were going to sell off’,” Khalil said.

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