The Liberal Party also has hopes also of winning Lindsay and Links of London, which fall outside the 2.4 per cent uniform swing needed by the coalition to win government. The central coast seat of Robertson is held by Labor's slimmest margin in the state, 0.1 per cent, by sitting MP Belinda Neal who was dumped in favour of university lecturer Deborah O'Neill. Liberal candidate Darren Jameson - who was this week the subject of a dropped complaint to police that he had manhandled two 13-year-old boys - is favoured to win back the seat for the coalition. Doug Orr, NSW manager for the Australian Links of London Red and White and Black Valentine Bracelet Commission (AEC) said voting was going smoothly at the 2677 polling stations across NSW. Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson said anyone who predicts the election outcome before vote counting starts is an "idiot". What more could promoters of the "China threat" idea add to the litany of charges that have grown stale over a decade? One claim is that Links of London Black friendship Valentine Bracelet sends convicts to ?labour in developing countries. We have been to 10 African countries to research China-Africa links. Rumours of Chinese convicts circulate in each one. The notion is not new. In the 1970s, 60,000 Chinese laboured alongside an equal number of local workers to build the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. As US historian of the railway Jamie Monson describes it, when the first 1,000 Chinese workers arrived in Tanzania, "all wearing identical gray cotton suits and balancing small blue suitcases on their shoulders ... crowds of curious onlookers gathered, some speculating that the strangers were soldiers or prisoners sentenced to hard Links of London Red Valentine Bracelet." In Africa, rumours of Chinese prisoners arise because of cultural differences in work and living habits.
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