The SMH has the intriguing news that a court in Wellington New Zealand has decided to let a Canberra man caught with 40k child pornography images on his hard drive off with a fine.
Judge Bruce Davidson said that as the man had been recalled to Australia and was due to leave on Friday, the realistic way to deal with the offending was by way of a fine.
He was ordered to pay $NZ11,200 ($A8,759.24) – $NZ700 ($A547.45) for each of the charges.
Won’t that be a happy homecoming?