A foreign national who deliberately enters Australia to commit a serious drug importation offence is not entitled to significant mitigatory weight for the hardship of incarceration in a foreign country. Declining to accord such weight does not constitute discrimination on the ground of nationality. For importation of ecstasy in a quantity approximately 90 times the traffickable quantity by a courier of good character, a sentence of 4 years with a 2-year non-parole period is within range and need not be suspended.
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