Alan Kohler: Don’t get too accustomed to low unemployment. Here’s why it won’t last

Unlike humans, robots don't need vacation time or toilet breaks and will never join a union. No wonder bosses love them.

When the unemployment rate hit 4 per cent on February 13, 2008, down from 7.2 per cent seven years earlier, it seemed like a new golden era for Australia’s working classes had arrived.

In the event, the golden era was deferred for 15 years by collapsing banks, politics and a pandemic.