JONATHAN O’BRIEN

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Moving fastand fixing things.

I build projects that make the world better.

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FROM RECENT TIMES --+
2027 BOUNDLESS BOOK HARDIE GRANT FORTHCOMING
2026 POWER LIST HONOUR THE AFR LISTEE OPEN
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 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARD AWARD YOUNG WRITER & PUBLISHER WINNER OPEN
2023 YIMBY MELBOURNE ORG FOUNDER / CEO ONGOING OPEN

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A NEWSLETTER --+

You Can See Everything (Just Not Yet)

Two-thirds of the year’s biggest films open here the same weekend as the US. So why do the rest wait?

OPEN

Was Auckland’s upzoning really a triumph of strategic planning?

The Auckland experiment worked so well that even people who fought to make it smaller have come back for credit.

OPEN

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IN SHORT --+

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 magazine Inflection Points, a Queensland Literary Award–winning writer and publisher, and a member of the 2026 Australian Financial Review Power List.

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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