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The Venetians : did someone say money? -- Francisco Pizarro : the deadly quarterback -- Queen Elizabeth I of England : busy digesting the Spanish Armada -- Catherine the Great : loves a good coup -- Napoleon Bonaparte : art critic in training -- Madame Cheng : no parrots needed -- Robert Fortune : the garden spy -- Robert Smalls : motoring -- William Tweed : the boss -- Thomas Edison : not a Hollywood star -- Vincenzo Peruggia : details, details, details -- Klaus Fuchs : an explosive thinker

The use of tropes is a defining feature of resource regulation and is fundamental to both the way legal theories have evolved and to the practical, localized interpretations and implementations of law. This article offers a discursive study of the "water thief" trope in order to clarify the ways in which language users are able to perform and construe broader notions about individual and communal rights to water. I underline the palpable shift from a conventional law-based account of theft to a logic incorporating key characteristics of criminality and immorality. The study builds on critical discourse analysis to show how the water thief trope creates a new water world in which "water thieves," although technically not criminals under formal law, are created and made to matter.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: The Party Thieves -- 1 Kevin 07 -- 2 Good One, Godwin -- 3 Abbott? Surely not -- Part II: The Rise and Fall -- 4 A Million Votes -- 5 Full-forward for the Dogs -- 6 7.30 Report land -- 7 Push Came to Shove -- 8 Charm Offensive -- 9 A Long Consultation -- 10 The Great Early election kerfuffle -- 11 Temper, Temper -- 12 'Too late!' she cried -- 13 From Rudd to the Ranga -- 14 Tyrannosaurus rudd -- Part III: The Campaign -- 15 Week One -- 16 Week Two -- 17 Week Three -- 18 Week Four -- 19 Week Five -- Part IV: The Outcome -- 20 Katterclism -- 21 Independents' Days -- 22 It Was the Leaks, Stupid -- Acknowledgements.

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