Roy Morgan Research Australian unemployment drops to its lowest for a year as employment increases again in March Country: This Roy Morgan survey on Australiaâs unemployment and âunder-employedâ* is based on weekly face-to-face interviews of 745,847 Australians aged 14 and over between January 2007 and March 2021 and includes 5,959 telephone and online interviews in March 2021. *The âunder-employedâ are those people who are in part-time work or freelancers who are looking for more work. Latest Roy Morgan employment series data shows 1.64 million Australians unemployed in March (down 291,000 on February) for an unemployment rate of 11.4% - the lowest for a year. 12.75 million Australians were employed in March – the highest since early March 2020: