I was living in Hobart when Martin Bryant shot 36 people in Port Arthur.
His sentence was over 200 years but nobody was saying "This is a farce, he'll never live that long", they were saying "Good, he'll never come out of jail alive".
As that article says, it is largely a symbolic sentence.
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gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 14 Mar 2012, 10:20,
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