A sentence of five years' imprisonment with a non-parole period of two years and six months for importing 127.2 grams of pure cocaine (more than 60 times the marketable quantity under s 307.2(1) Criminal Code (Cth)) is within the appropriate sentencing range, even where the importation was partly for personal use and supply to friends rather than commercial trafficking, and where the offender cooperated with authorities and entered a timely guilty plea.
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