When sentencing for multiple sexual offences, the sentencing judge must differentiate between the relative gravity of individual counts and consider which counts arose from the same episode of offending, rather than imposing identical sentences and identical cumulation orders across all counts. The imposition of a lenient non-parole period relative to the head sentence does not cure a breach of the totality principle because conditional release must never be assumed.
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