A sentence of five years and six months imprisonment (from a starting point of six years) is within range for a four-month methylamphetamine trafficking operation involving 61 supply occasions to 28 customers with concurrent production offences, even where the offender is young (22-24), has minimal criminal history, and has demonstrated rehabilitation. Comparable decisions in Mikula and Church are distinguishable where the trafficking was at street level, involved schedule 2 drugs, or was primarily motivated by personal drug dependency rather than commercial profit. Evidence of a co-offender's criminal history will not be received on appeal where the inference of influence is speculative and unsupported by the agreed facts.
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