A total effective sentence of 8 years and 6 months' imprisonment for 14 offences of commercial dealing in MDMA and methylamphetamine over approximately one month, where the offender was not a drug user and had limited mitigating factors, does not offend the totality principle. The case restates the two-limb totality test and the description of a 'crushing' sentence from Jarvis v The Queen.
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