1. Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania. This is a revised version of a paper presented at a conference organised by the National Judicial Conference of Australia and the Australian National University, Sentencing: Principles, Perspectives and Possibilities, 10–12 February 2006 , Canberra. Thank you to Victor Stojcevski and Debbie Bowring for research assistance. I also appreciate the help and comments provided by Julia Davis, George Zdenkowski, Terese Henning and the anonymous reviewers for...