When sentencing an offender to a term of imprisonment cumulative upon an existing sentence, the parole eligibility date under s 160F of the Penalties and Sentences Act 1992 (Qld) must be set by reference to the total period of imprisonment, not by reference to either individual term. A sentencing judge is not obliged to set the eligibility date after the full-time discharge date of the existing sentence. The totality principle applies to the fixing of parole eligibility dates, not merely to head sentences.
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