The soaring cost of leasing a home and the lowest vacancy rate in 12 years has the March 25 poll primed to be the first renters’ election, with tenants in Western Sydney marginal seats set to decide the outcome.

The Perrottet government has promised 100,000 new jobs will be created in Western Sydney in the next five years under their booming infrastructure to-do list while Labor will reinvigorate the traditional manufacturing heartland in the city’s west by pumping out TAFE-graduates capable of building the next generation of trains in NSW.

Detectives have begun investigating professional gambler Michael Pryde and his betting site Simply The Bets as The Daily Telegraph can reveal the reasons he has given for leaving punters millions out of pocket.

And the jury that convicted disgraced detectives Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara of murder should have been told that Rogerson had confessed to being a serial killer with a badge, McNamara has argued in the High Court.

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