Complex sentence: Cairns and Morosi subsequently severed any formal links with the Down to Earth movement in 1979 and the movement more or less fizzled out, leaving a legacy of ill-feeling and disputes over money which eventually led to litigation in the New South Wales courts.
Split into simpler sentences: Cairns and Morosi subsequently severed any formal links with the Down to Earth movement in 1979. By 1979 the movement had fizzled out, leaving a legacy of ill-feeling and disputes over money which eventually led to litigation in the New South Wales courts.