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Functions

Woodside Camp was established in 1927 for training light horse and infantry. In the 1950s it was used as a migration reception camp in addition to military use. In 2015, the former married quarters area, known as Inverbrackie, was subdivided from the site and sold. 

Separate to the estate audit, nearly all Australian Defence Force personnel have moved to RAAF Base Edinburgh for capability reasons unrelated to the estate audit.

This site serves as office space, live-in accommodation Army Reserves and Cadet training facility.

Functions

Warradale Barracks is located approximately 11km south of Adelaide central business district. The site contains maintenance areas, workshops, fuel store, and administration, training, logistics and distribution facilities. This site will be partially divested to retain the critical capability, with the exact portions to be finalised through the divestment process.

This site serves as office space, storage, logistics and distribution base for Army Reserves.

Functions

This site is used predominantly for Reserves and Cadet training and is approximately 6km from Adelaide central business district.

This site serves as office space, live-in accommodation and an Army Reserves and Cadet training facility.

Address

Muller Road
Greenacres SA 5086

Size

7 hectares

Functions

Edinburgh Parks is a legacy land holding from the sale of 650 hectares of Defence land at Edinburgh that was declared surplus to requirements in the mid-1990s, following the consolidation and modernisation of the laboratories at Defence Science and Technology Edinburgh.

This site predominantly provides office space.

Address

West Avenue
Edinburgh SA 5111

Size

7 hectares

About the base

Metropolitan Adelaide and Regional Sites (MARS) is a multi-site base. MARS headquarters is located at Keswick Barracks, on the south-west edge of the Adelaide central business district.

The MARS footprint comprises approximately 29 Defence sites located across South Australia and Broken Hill. These include major sites of:

About the base

The precinct is a key national defence research and intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance hub. It is primarily home to the Air Warfare Centre, and No 92 Wing's AP-3C Orion and P-8A Poseidon aircraft which conduct surveillance operations throughout Australia's airspace.

The precinct's major sites consist of:
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