The need for an uplift in sentences for commercial quantity trafficking identified in Gregory has a necessary flow-on consequence requiring an uplift in sentences for large commercial quantity trafficking, given the requirement to maintain appropriate relativities between the quantity-based categories. A sentence of 9 years' imprisonment for LCQ methylamphetamine trafficking after trial, where the offender was a principal motivated by profit with no remorse, is very moderate. The Wallace exception for non-parole period grounds requires a clear and settled statement of intention by the sentencing judge, not merely acceptance of a submission that a longer disparity could be considered.
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