JONATHAN O’BRIEN

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Moving fastand fixing things.

I build projects that make the world better.

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2027 BOUNDLESS BOOK HARDIE GRANT FORTHCOMING
2026 AUSTRALIAN ZONING ATLAS RESEARCH LEAD RESEARCHER PUBLISHED OPEN
2025 INFLECTION POINTS MAGAZINE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ONGOING OPEN
2025 EMERGENT VENTURES AWARD MERCATUS CENTER AWARDEE OPEN
2023 YIMBY MELBOURNE ORG FOUNDER / CEO ONGOING OPEN
2023 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARD AWARD YOUNG WRITER & PUBLISHER WINNER OPEN

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The biggest housing budget win has nothing to do with negative gearing

It’s the incentives, stupid.

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My first book, Boundless, will be out in 2027

The untapped potential of Australian land, co-written with Howard Maclean and published by Pantera.

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Jonathan O'Brien is the CEO of YIMBY Melbourne, Australia's foremost supply-side policy organisation. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of long-form policy journal Inflection Points, and a Queensland Literary Award–winning writer and publisher.

Jonathan’s first non-fiction book, Boundless, will be out with Hardie Grant in 2027. He is a 10% pledger with Giving What We Can.

JONATHAN@JONOBRI.COM

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I am a Queensland Literary Award–winning writer and publisher of research, non-fiction, and fiction.

My first book, Boundless, will be published in 2027.

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I bring together rigorous data, attentive editing, and robust tools to build the evidence and organisations that make the world better.

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I undertake complex, communications-first work, to help build understanding within teams and across industries.

Because people are most impactful where knowledge is both shared and accessible.

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