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Jonathan O’BrienThe personal newsletter of Jonathan O'Brien, for smaller research curiosities.
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In my teenage years, I became insufferable about film. I once forced my parents to watch Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, which is a fact they’ve never let me live down. To this day, any film recommendation I make to my father is met with...
Was Auckland’s upzoning really a triumph of strategic planning?
Just about everyone in the housing policy space is familiar with the Auckland story. In 2016, New Zealand’s largest city upzoned about three-quarters of its residential land. Construction surged—over the next seven years, roughly 112,000 ne...
The biggest housing budget win has nothing to do with negative gearing
It’s been a long time coming, but in 2026 the Albanese Government is actually taking housing affordability seriously.
But despite all the bluster about negative gearing and capital gains, they’re actually the least important part of the bu...
My first book, Boundless, will be out in 2027
Australia faces three current crises: housing, energy, and productivity. Confronting these great problems of our time will require us to reckon with how our nation uses the fundamental and under-examined element that underpins every edge an...
Why does Australia have so many live auctions?
On my recent trip around the US, I learned that house auctions—Saturday morning events where half the neighbourhood rocks up to watch a fast-talking bloke palm off a property one ten-grand bid at a time—are mostly unique to Australia.
As I...
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Jonathan O'Brien is the Lead Organiser of YIMBY Melbourne. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of long-form policy journal Inflection Points, and a Queensland Literary Award–winning writer and publisher. He is a 10% pledger with Giving What We Can.
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