Certainly the case law demonstrates that what some of us call the tariff for these offences is very high. Having a mandatory minimum sentence won't affect those sentencing decisions. I mean, the mandatory minimum sentence will be a starting point, as the Supreme Court said, for the best offenders and the least serious offences, which the minimum sentence will be applied to. But what we do see as well is—and we can look at cases like Smickle from the Superior Court—that when we're dealing with minimum sentences, there are quite often unique fact scenarios to which the minimum may not be applied. So we have a solution in search of a problem. That is what this legislation may be, I submit, because there isn't a problem. We don't see in the case law blatant bad offenders, who commit this offence, being sentenced very leniently.
