Comment by mrkeen

> Is Australia particularly bad about it perhaps?

We may need to gather more data. He's literally the first person to be sentenced for a law which has been on the books for decades. In the meantime: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...

> Judge Leonie Flannery, Australian Border Force officials, police, even his employer just had a grand 'ol time punishing this guy.

Maybe? I'm gonna wait until after the sentence has been imposed to decide whether it's excessive or not.