{"product_id":"inconvenient-animals","title":"Inconvenient Animals","description":"\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s description:\u003cbr\u003eIn 2024, an earless dragon was spotted – the first in over 50 years. Soon, scientists and sniffer dogs patrolled the grasslands, as development ground to a halt. A tiny lizard had effectively exacerbated the housing crisis, forcing an uncomfortable question: what matters more – our right to shelter or theirs to exist?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAcross Australia, native species get caught in the tug between conservation and urban development. Some, like koalas, orange-bellied parrots, pygmy bluetongues, flying foxes, plains-wanderer birds or brilliant peacock spiders, are so crucial to the ecosystems they inhabit that their demise can herald collapse. How did we come to see nature as a resource to exploit rather than an integral part of our future?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe dragon’s disappearance mirrors the vanishing of our most endangered habitat. Both are part of a deeper story: one that connects early colonists’ visions of agriculture to the sprawling suburbs now built on ancient land. A story about the men who declared the continent terra nullius and the modern developers who reshape it share more than we’d like to admit.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about what we miss when we don’t look closely, and about the long shadow colonialism casts on our treatment of animals. Weaving ecology, philosophy and history, it’s a reckoning with our past, and an urgent meditation on how we might save the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Dave Witty \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher:  Monash University Press\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePages: 304\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePublished: 1 Nov 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9781923451162\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Shop at Old Parliament House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53577731178807,"sku":"9781923451162","price":33.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/9559\/0967\/files\/File-8653_medium_fef0ccf1-ef87-4603-b1cc-7df4d7204602.png?v=1794267951","url":"https:\/\/shop.moadoph.gov.au\/products\/inconvenient-animals","provider":"The Shop at Old Parliament House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}