I Work in Pembroke and every day I drive past the building which was an ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) hospital built during World War I for wounded and sick soldiers fighting in the Gallipoli beach-head of 1915.

This historical building is being left to deteriorate and is strewn with rubbish. Apart from being an eyesore, it causes discomfort and peril to the students who attend the schools in the vicinity. Drug addicts find it an ideal place for drug assimilating.

As this is a former military building, it could be a good idea to involve the Armed Forces of Malta which happen to have an Engineer Squadron a few paces away.

Seeing the exceptional bond that ties Malta to Australia due to the huge influx of Maltese immigrants and also that such a building should be used in a more advantageous manner (a tourist attraction, open space for a family park?), I appeal to the authorities to consider restructuring this building.

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