For offences under s 195(1) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW), recklessness requires foresight of harm to property to any degree from minor damage to destruction, and the foresight need not relate to the specific property identified in the particulars of the charge. Destruction and damage are not distinct offences but aspects of a single statutory specification. The reasoning in Blackwell v R (requiring foresight of the specific consequence of grievous bodily harm) does not apply to s 195(1) because that section encompasses all degrees of property harm on a single spectrum.
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