The assessment of objective seriousness is an evaluative judgment akin to fact-finding or the exercise of a discretion, reviewable only on House v The King principles. An appellate court will not substitute its own view of objective seriousness for that of the sentencing judge, and it is insufficient that the appellate court might have formed a different view. For standard non-parole period offences, subjective circumstances of the offender are not factored into the evaluation of where the offending lies on the spectrum of objective seriousness.
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