A stern individual sentence is not necessarily manifestly excessive where the total effective sentence properly reflects overall criminality. An appellate court may decline to intervene where individual sentences are problematic in different directions (some too stern, some too lenient) but the total effective sentence and release conditions are appropriate. For dealing with money reasonably suspected of being proceeds of crime under s 400.9(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth), a sentence of 2 years' imprisonment (two-thirds of the 3-year maximum) for dealing with $575,000 was at the top of the range but not outside it.
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