If you’ve ever got a dodgy proposition you want spruiked, see if you can get NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet to do it.

His budget offers the most optimistic view of the next four years, leading our state to a new Golden Century (and here was me thinking the Golden Century was where Sussex Street Labor went for a Chinese meal).

Behind all Perrottet’s bravado, however, he has taken his lumps, using his budget to absorb some of the economic pain and keep stimulating the state’s slowing economy.

Which makes him much less in denial than his federal counterpart, Josh Frydenberg, who despite all the bad news we’ve had about the national economy since his budget in April, says he’s pressing on with returning the federal budget to surplus.