When sentencing for multiple child abuse material offences arising from the same course of conduct but charged separately by reference to different devices, the totality principle requires that the obvious overlap in offending be taken into account, and making all sentences fully cumulative will ordinarily result in manifest excess. Section 4K(4) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) does not permit aggregate sentences for offences on indictment.
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