The CSIRO is (was) a prestigious institution that had an excellent reputation for producing solid work. It was gutted for political reasons, by a Prime Minister

The CSIRO is (was) a prestigious institution that had an excellent reputation for producing solid work. It was gutted for political reasons, by a Prime Minister who campaigned on the 'horror' of the opponent party kicking out their chosen PM in his first term... and then being such a bad specimen himself, was kicked out in his first term. With the exclusion of the government propaganda around the time of the gutting of the CSIRO, I've never heard anyone (domestic or foreign) speak of the CSIRO with anything but respect. Accusations of fat-cat scientists feathering their nests doesn't fit.