Gurner Group founder Tim Gurner was labelled self-interested and his statements 'breathtakingly irresponsible'.
He was speaking at a business event.
"I think the problem that we've had is people decided they didn't actually want to work that much through COVID, and that has had a massive issue through productivity," he said. Asked at the summit how housing supply could be improved, Gurner said the planning system needed to be "fixed" and said Sydney's planning system was "fundamentally broken". He also said "we absolutely have to have migration" to supply tradespeople in key areas."At the AFR Property Summit this week I made some remarks about unemployment and productivity in Australia that I deeply regret and were wrong," he said.
US Democratic Party politician Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shared a video of Gurner's comments about unemployment online and said they were a: "reminder that major CEOs have skyrocketed their own pay so much that the ratio of CEO-to-worker pay is now at some of the highest levels ever recorded".
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