Alison McCarthy Phillips, Alexander and Albert Phillips are the owners of Marsupial Manor, a property situated in Bilpin, New South Wales. The property is surrounded by the nearby Wollemi National Park. Marsupial Manor is a private nature reserve, home and a NFP office and is also part of the Land for Wildlife program.
Marsupial Manor spans 20 acres, featuring a chain of ponds and the vegetation class Sydney Hinterland Dry Sclerophyll Forests. The owners intend to partake in ongoing nature protection, conserving the precious biodiversity that exists at Marsupial Manor. The property provides habitat for a range of species including wombats (Vombatus ursinus), swamp wallabies (Wallabia bicolor), sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps), bush rats (Rattus fuscipes) antechinus, diamond pythons (Morelia spilota spilota), multiple venomous snakes, lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae), yellow tailed black cockatoos (Calyptorhynchus funereus) and gang gang cockatoos (Callocephalon fimbriatum).