The standard non-parole period may be used as a guidepost on sentence without constituting Muldrock error, and the detection of such error requires examination of the substance of the sentencing process rather than reliance on metaphors such as 'springboard'. Where the quantity of prohibited drug vastly exceeds the large commercial quantity threshold (here, more than 4,000 times), this is a very material consideration in assessing objective seriousness, and an offender imported from overseas to perform multiple functions in a drug enterprise may be characterised as a vital participant warranting a finding of objective seriousness above the mid-range.
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