The [name withheld] approach of imposing a global sentence on the most serious offence to reflect total criminality may be applied to Commonwealth offences, including where a mandatory minimum non-parole period under s 19AG(2) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) applies to one offence but not another. However, the sentencing judge must be aware of and ameliorate the potential collateral consequence that the mandatory non-parole period would apply to the uplifted portion of the sentence attributable to the non-minimum-non-parole-period offence. There is no requirement to quantify the specific adjustments made in the instinctive synthesis process.
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