A sentencing judge may properly have regard to an Aboriginal offender's disadvantages and sentence as leniently as the circumstances of the offence admit, but those disadvantages do not justify or excuse violence against women or children, and women and children in deprived communities should not be deprived of the law's protection. A proposition that offences of violence should not be adequately penalised because of disadvantages experienced by the offender's group is not acceptable.
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