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Disgraced former NRL star and convicted rapist Jarryd Hayne has lost his career and legacy forever, and his freedom for the next two years.

It was his own fault, the consequence of having sexual intercourse without consent, a judge said on Friday.

A jury found Hayne guilty of two charges in April. He maintains his innocence, has shown no contrition or remorse, or accepted responsibility for the crimes he committed on NRL grand final night 2018.

His lawyers plan to appeal.

The 35-year-old's conviction constitutes a "plummet" from his position as a famous footballer celebrated for his sporting achievements and community contributions, NSW District Court Judge Graham Turnbull said.

Athletically, if not academically gifted, Hayne enjoyed a stellar footballing career after deciding at 15 it was the only way out of his disadvantaged single-parent upbringing in housing commissions.

He was elite in the NRL during 214 games, the only fullback crowned its best player in two seasons, as well as representing Australia and Fiji and NSW in 23 State of Origin games.

None of those facts matter now and he will not be remembered for them.

The NRL is considering stripping accolades and the notion he could be removed from the records is "significant".

"And again, a consequence of his own offending," the judge said, jailing Hayne for four years and nine months with a non-parole period of three years.

Hayne was about a foot taller, weighing more than double the woman he assaulted with his hands and mouth in her suburban Newcastle home after he "reefed" her pants away in one go as she told him "no" three or four times, Judge Turnbull said.

"His preparedness to utilise ultimately the complainant as some kind of sexual object is a matter of significance."

The pair cleaned off blood in her ensuite before Hayne returned to a taxi he paid $550 to drive him to Sydney.

Before the assault, when she learned the taxi was waiting, her "heart dropped" and she felt "he'd only come there for one thing", telling her mother "there's no way I'm about to have sex with him".

The woman cannot be identified, but in a statement read to the court on Monday, said her life has been "launched into what feels like a never-ending nightmare" in the almost five years since.

"I am stronger and I am wiser but I am damaged and I won't ever be the same person," she wrote.

She stood up for herself and stood by her obligation to the community to bring a criminal to justice, Judge Turnbull said, while struggling with her own conflicting feelings, "sick" at the thought of "taking away someone's daddy".

"Perhaps the most significant insight ... is her generosity in feeling for others, when that night her feelings were disregarded," the judge said.

He noted conflicting feelings were common for complainants and operated as "a handbrake on the detection and determination of sexual offending".

Outside court, officer-in-charge Detective Inspector Eugene Stek told reporters her resolve could send a message to complainants shining a light on other offenders.

"She's certainly much braver than she believes, she's certainly much stronger than she seems and she's certainly much smarter than she thinks," he said.

The judge thought it unlikely Hayne would reoffend, lacking risk factors typically identified in sex offenders, being committed to his family and religion and taking steps to address past misuse of alcohol and cocaine.

His sentence is backdated to May 7, 2022 because of previous time in custody and other factors including onerous custodial conditions during the pandemic.

He spent nine months in jail before verdicts were overturned, requiring his third trial.

The first trial's jury could not reach a verdict.

He will be eligible for parole on May 6, 2025.

"Say no more," Hayne said as he was taken off the court's screen post-sentencing.

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Peter Dutton says an unprecedented wave of migration will worsen Australia's housing crisis and leave the nation's battlers in its wake.

But the government says the comments are divisive and dishonest.

In his budget reply speech on Thursday, the opposition leader queried the decision to allow 1.5 million people to come into Australia over five years, which he described as the highest intake in the nation's history.

Speaking from Jerrabomberra in NSW on Friday, Mr Dutton said the nation was built on the success of its migrants, but in a housing crisis it had to be managed.

"We've got to recognise that there are a lot of Australians who are really doing it tough," he said.

"People can't find rental accommodation now, and they can't buy a house ... you're bringing 6000 people a week extra in, I just don't understand where those people are going to live."

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the former coalition government was projecting an even higher migration level before it left office and less investment in housing than that proposed by Labor.

"They're not a lever that the government is pulling - they simply recognise that the students and long term tourists are coming back quicker than anticipated, and fewer Australians are leaving Australia to go and work overseas," Dr Chalmers said in Brisbane on Friday.

"The opposition has in the past said they want the students and tourists to get back quicker, so there's an inconsistency there."

Dr Chalmers said the coalition and the Greens were blocking a $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund which would provide 30,000 social and affordable homes.

Also as part of his budget reply, Mr Dutton called for JobSeeker recipients to be able to work up to 10 hours a fortnight while receiving the unemployment payment.

"In our country, we've got 438,000 job vacancies and over 800,000 people on unemployment benefits, so we want to get them off welfare and into work," he said.

"It would give them a lot of extra money in their pocket compared to the $40 that the government is offering."

Mr Dutton declined to commit to supporting Labor's proposed $2.85 a day lift in JobSeeker payments.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Mr Dutton had failed to back extra JobSeeker support when he was a cabinet minister.

"This is a budget aimed squarely at assisting vulnerable people through cost of living relief, but also aimed at assisting people in middle Australia," Mr Albanese said in Sydney.

While the opposition backed some budget measures such as tripling the bulk billing incentive and expanding single-parent payments, Mr Dutton said families had received little support.

"The budget hurts working Australians. Worse, it risks creating a generation of working poor Australians," he said.

Dr Chalmers described the opposition leader's budget reply as "divisive, dishonest and backward-looking".

"Peter Dutton thinks you can spend more, tax less and get bigger surpluses - that's the kind of dishonesty at the core of his budget reply," he said.

Responding to the opposition leader's call for small-scale nuclear power, Dr Chalmers said Mr Dutton needed to say which suburbs would host the plants and how they would stack up economically.

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Brisbane star Pat Carrigan has avoided suspension for a tackle that saw him sin-binned at a crucial stage in his side's loss to Melbourne.

Carrigan was sent to the bin after the bunker deemed his tackle on Storm prop Nelson Asofa-Solomona was a hip-drop in Thursday night's 24-16 defeat.

But the NRL's judiciary disagreed and didn't charge the Broncos forward on Friday morning, leaving him free to face Penrith next round and remain eligible to play for Queensland in the State of Origin series opener.

If he had been slapped with a grade-two charge, Carrigan would have been offered a two-game ban with an early plea ruling him out of game one.

His tackle on Asofa-Solomona seemed innocent with the lock appearing to be sliding down the Storm prop's legs with his feet never leaving the ground.

The judiciary's call is bound to leave Broncos fans fuming after the bunker's call to sin-bin him in the 55th minute.

Brisbane were trailing 12-10 at the time before Melbourne's Justin Olam scored a try with the one-man advantage.

Both coaches didn't think it was a hip-drop tackle with Brisbane boss Kevin Walter suggesting the NRL needs to address the issue.

"You wouldn't like to see it happen in a grand final, someone get sin-binned for that," he said.

"He slid down his legs ... the NRL want you to slide down the legs and Patty did that," Walters said.

Storm coach Craig Bellamy backed Walters when asked about the hip-drop tackle, a talking point this season.

"I think they are very inconsistent with it," Bellamy said. "Patrick was very unlucky to go to the sin bin.

"I am thinking along the lines that Kevvie's (Walters) thinking, it was a tough decision to send him to the sin bin."

Last month the Australian Rugby League Commission asked the NRL to provide more clarity to coaches on what a hip-drop tackle constitutes after a spate of controversial suspensions and sin bins.

Brisbane fullback Reece Walsh was the only player charged from the Thursday night game, but he's been offered a $1500 fine for a shoulder charge on Olam.

Melbourne fans might feel hard done by that call given Walsh's charge was not penalised by either the on-field official or the bunker and prevented Olam from scoring a try.

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