The Repatriation Commission Outpatient Clinic at 310 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Australia, is an Art Deco building of architectural and historical significance as the only remaining Repatriation Commission Outpatient Clinic or Commonwealth building built for the health and wellbeing of the original ANZACs (i.e., World War I veterans).

'[3] On this site the Repatriation Commission Outpatient Clinic was built adjacent to Victoria Barracks, Melbourne, it was opened on 15 November 1937,[4] to provide a greater level of care to veterans.

The commission is gradually adding to the therapeutic armament at its institutions, so that the medical staffs will not be handicapped in their efforts to aid their patients...

A report by the Department of Administrative Services (DAS) in 1982 indicated that General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters occupied the basement level.

[10] Based on the success of the addition of the neurosis clinic the Minister for Repatriation, Senator Sir Walter Cooper (Queensland politician) M.B.E.

The Clinic was singled out in the Master Builders Federation of Australia (NSW) journal, Building and Engineering, of 25 September 1950, representing the attractive properties on St Kilda Rd.

Naturally the civic authorities, with the full support of the people of Melbourne, are jealous of the preservation of the beauty of this thoroughfare, and exercises care in regard to the buildings that are erected along it.

Our illustration shows the Outpatient Clinic for the Repatriation Commission of Victoria, which was erected fronting St. Kilda Road in the years immediately prior to world War II.

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works considered a proposal in 1993 to repurpose the building into its original purpose as the Defence Health Care Centre (DHCC) at a cost of $1.3million, which was not approved.

The claim was in "respect of the detrimental effect on working conditions that resulted from building and alteration activities at these sites from 18 April 1994 to 1 July 1994 inclusive".

On 22 June 2015 ANVAM wrote to the responsible Minister Darren Chester MP enquiring about the path available under the Commonwealth Property Disposal Policy (CPDP) that did not preclude an off-market sale to a non-Government entity in line with the precedent set also at Victoria Barracks in 1994 of the sale of land for $1 to a child care centre.

A report (Ref: 200349) was prepared for the Victorian Heritage Council in May 2017 noting that "The Former Repatriation Outpatients Clinic has a special association with returned service personnel from conflicts since World War I.

For present day returned personnel, the place provides a strong emotional connection to past veterans and their experiences of war trauma and disability".

At this time Senator Derryn Hinch became involved and through direct lobbying was able to prevent further progress toward a commercial sale in the expectation that the State Government could be convinced to make an offer for the property to support the proposal put forward by ANVAM.

As an expression of tri-party support the three primary candidates for the Division of Macnamara in the 2019 Federal election, Josh Burns (ALP), Kate Ashmor (Liberal) and Steph Hodgins-May (Greens), publicly endorsed the initiative to create a cultural institution for veterans wellbeing during a community forum on 16 April 2019.

In April 2020 Melbourne City Council expressed interest in the property in order to support veterans through the proposal for a cultural institution.

[33] During Senate Estimates on 27 October 2021, the Department of Defence revealed that Melbourne City Council has voted to decline the invitation to make an offer for an off-market concessional sale.

Through a line of questions by Senator Van the point was made that Melbourne City Council was unable to progress with the sale, and therefore retention of the property in public ownership, due to the poor state of repair caused by the Department of Defence's management of the site since 1995 when it was last occupied.

Later in October 2022, the local newspaper, the Southbank News, reported that Minister Matt Thistlethwaite MP had determined the building would be used for offices and meeting rooms pointing out that this was a backflip to its pre-election support for its original 2016 policy.