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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr David Lindenmayer, Professor Hugh Possingham, members of the ‘Reimagining the Suburb’ group at RMIT University (Sarah Bekessy, Ascelin Gordon, William Langford, and Georgia Garrard), Dr Denis Saunders, Dr John Woinarski and Dr Dan Lunney for their critical reviews, comments and suggestions made on earlier drafts of this commentary.

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