 The "New Internationalist" team in the UK also felt that the quality of the editorial material submitted from Australia was not high enough.This tension was evident as early as 1980 when the "New Internationalist" team in the UK appointed Bob Hawkins as editor of the issue on Elites when he and the Australian board wanted the issue to focus on Pacific resources or Maoris.The period of tension ended with the resignation of Bob Hawkins in 1982 and a restructuring of "New Internationalist Australia" carried out when Chris Sheppard from the "New Internationalist" team in the UK travelled to Melbourne in September of the same year.