Section 16A(2A) of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) precludes a sentencing court from taking customary law or cultural practice into account to reduce an offender's moral culpability for federal offences, not merely the objective seriousness of the offence; the prohibition applies to both the objective and subjective dimensions of offence seriousness as part of the instinctive synthesis.
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