Graeme Martin in his office in the Stafford St Otago Regional Council building. When it comes to these roles you are 110% in or 110% out, he says. Photo by Peter McIntosh. : Deep in the current

Graeme Martin at about the time he became Otago Regional Council chief executive in 1993. : Deep in the current

Graeme Martin (right) fires up his own incinerator one last time before urban backyard burning is banned under new regional air plan regulations in 2001. Watching is Dunedin City Council civil defence and rural fire manager Neil Brown. : Deep in the current

Graeme Martin (right) discusses responses to the drought in early 2004. : Deep in the current

Then Otago Regional Council chairman Stephen Cairns outlines the council's response to didymo as Graeme Martin looks on, in 2005. : Deep in the current