The “Razor Gang” Is Back: Is Australia’s R&DTI Being Gutted in the Name of Integrity?
“Razor gang” once meant something literal. In the 1920s, it described Sydney’s street thugs who swapped pistols for straight razors after the law clamped down on guns. The term returned in the 1980s, this time pointed at politics—at committees that sliced public spending with surgical zeal. The Fraser government’s 1981 “Review of Commonwealth Functions Committee”…
