Since colonial settlement of Melbourne in 1835 the use of unceded land for low rise housing has created a large metropolitan footprint producing inequalities between the species, systems and First Nations people living there and those that "arrived". Still today the inefficient low-rise sprawl continues as a solution to a housing crisis underpinned by other inequalities. In the rush to address one inequality, the inequality of land use between species deepens. On the edges of Melbourne outdated practices of land clearing and site scraping carry on. This inequality of land use intersects, displaces and destroys ancient remnant ecosystems, habitats and culturally sensitive sites.