NSW elects Dan Andrews

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Dom Perrottet departs with a lie:

NSW is a much better place today than it was 12 years ago. That will be the legacy of our Liberals and Nationals’ government.

Err, NSW is literally the same place it was 12 years ago. Real wages did rise for a while, then flattened out, and have now crashed, with a round trip of zero progress (with another push further back in time still ahead):

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.