razor gang

With these events, the "razor gang" era drew to a close.

A month or so later (in June), we finally ran into the razor gang pulling up the tracks.

One final point: when I talk about a razor gang, I'm dead serious.

The Times ran a campaign to publicise the razor gangs' threat to law and order.

The razor gang has been looking at spending cuts and tackling tax breaks.

He has also been referred to as a member of the State Government's "razor gang".

Even trolling within a few hundred metres of the shoreline you will find the razor gang.

The Liberals' official policy is to appoint a razor gang after the election to recommend cuts.

Kingfish action has been a bit limited, and a bit difficult with competition from the razor gang.

Unemployment was at an all-time high, razor gangs were creating a moral panic, and the city became known as the sick man of Europe.

Razor gangs were criminal gangs that dominated the Sydney crime scene in the 1920s.

The term razor gang has been subsequently used in Australian politics as a nickname for politicians charged with cutting government spending.

The razor gangs were on the rampage.

Kate Leigh was a leading figure in the notorious Sydney razor gang wars.

The Kelly brothers were well known to police for their role in the recent 'razor gang war' in Sydney.

He saw us through ever so many Razor gangs conceived by political shakers long forgotten, long departed from the scene.

The gangs at this time were also referred to as Glasgow razor gangs, named after their weapon of choice.

Public sector union boss Nadine Flood said such audits were a "shopping list for razor gangs."

Markham had outlived most of her criminal contemporaries from Sydney's tempestuous razor gang era.

But the government's razor gang is reportedly preparing tough spending cuts to offset reduced revenue, News Ltd reports.

And therefore I'm very mindful of what can be done through a razor gang process as far as non-core functions of government.

He has promised to introduce debt-funded tax cuts before the end of the year and establish a razor gang to review and trim government spending.

Fascists justified such behaviour as legitimate self-defence: it was they who had been first assaulted by razor gangs of alien Jews.

Crime in Me inter-war years was characterised by razor gangs, feuds between armed gangsters, vice rackets and so on.