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Jonathan O'Brien is a writer, software developer, and housing supply advocate.
In 2023, he founded YIMBY Melbourne, a group advocating for planning reform and housing abundance. He is an inaugural Fundraise For Australia Fellow.
In 2022 he co-created The Beige Index, a data communication project covered by the Australian Financial Review, among other publications.
In 2016 he founded artist residency space House Conspiracy, and in 2018 edited the organisation’s arts anthology The Conspirator.
Jonathan’s writing has been published widely and has been awarded the Queensland Young Publishers & Writers Award (2023), as well as a Lord Mayor's Young and Emerging Artists Fellowship (2020), the State Library of Queensland Young Writers Award (2017), and the QUT Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize (2014).
A full list of Jonathan’s creative works and achievements can be found here. He currently splits his time between Brisbane and Melbourne.
You can find Jonathan on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Or you can get in touch directly: jonathan@jonobri.com
10% of Jonathan’s personal income is donated to effective charities. He is pledge member 6,005 of Giving What We Can.