My first book, Boundless, will be out in 2027

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

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 and corner of our society: land.

In the 80s and 90s, Australian governments were hugely successful in reshaping the economy: they introduced new financial paradigms, reformed industrial relations, lowered trade barriers, and did it all for the better of the country—but they stopped short of reforming the policies that govern our physical world.

In order to build the Australia of tomorrow, we must get serious about reforming the way we regulate and utilise land. This is the greatest and most important policy challenge of our era, and it’s what Boundless is about.

Pantera have been excellent and whipped this up for us.

This is the book Howard and I have wanted to write for a long time, and we’re very excited to be doing it. Currently, we are both buried deep in Australian history—beginning all the way back in 1788—laying out the history of land use, and building a strong understanding of how we got to where we are today.

I rebooted this O’Mail substack like one would a fibremaxxing diet—with great ambitions of regularity. For the time being, though, I’ll be directing all the energy I have for writing toward the book. If you hear from me here, it won’t be much. Between running both YIMBY Melbourne and Inflection Points, and now writing Boundless, I am not exactly oozing spare time from my pores. (This very bodily paragraph brought to you, most likely, by cortisol).

That all said—the best way to know about the book is to subscribe to this mailing list here. (I am increasingly negligent of Twitter, and LinkedIn’s algorithm is unknowable.)

I’m looking forward to sharing more when we can.