A challenge to a sentencing judge's characterisation of objective seriousness must be founded on House v The King error, not mere disagreement with the assessment. Where an indicative sentence for a particular offence bears a substantial proportion to the aggregate sentence, error in characterising the seriousness of that offence establishes error in the aggregate sentence. The assessment of objective seriousness under s 112(2) of the Crimes Act 1900 (NSW) is a multi-factorial inquiry in which no single factor (such as the use of a weapon or deprivation of liberty) is determinative.
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