In 1997 the "Save East Circular Quay Committee" was convened by Tony Rodi and Paul Johnson, and chaired by Neville Gruzman, and later by Jack Mundey in the battle to stop the desecration of the Sydney Opera House precinct.Mundey, Doug Sutherland, Todd, and Kell Hutchence, joined the battle, urged by an unprecedented public outcry against an apartment development, which obliterated views of the Sydney Opera House from the main pedestrian approach.