The impact of imprisonment on an offender's pregnancy and existing children is a relevant sentencing consideration under the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) that can justify a significantly reduced period of actual custody before suspension, even in the absence of a guilty plea or contrition. A suspension after four months of a three-year head sentence for Commonwealth fraud was upheld as not manifestly inadequate in these circumstances.
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