Where co-offenders' sentences arise from the same overall scheme but differ in the nature of offending, personal circumstances, and the applicability of totality principles, the parity principle is not engaged merely because one sentence is wholly suspended and the other is not. Exposure to deportation under s 501(3A) of the Migration Act 1958 (Cth) does not require a sentencing judge to wholly suspend a sentence.
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