A dangerous sex offender is set to be released on a five-year strict supervision order under a decision by Western Australia's Chief Justice Wayne Martin.
Nigel Yates, 39, has spent most of his adult life behind bars for a string of crimes, including three serious sex assaults committed in 1998, 2003 and 2007.
Two of the assaults were committed just days after Yates had been released from jail and two of the victims were teenagers - a 15-year-old girl and 19-year-old woman.
All involved violence towards the victims.
The offences were committed in Kalgoorlie and Laverton, in Western Australia's Goldfields.
Yates was born in Warburton and raised in an Aboriginal community in the Central Desert.
Yates was declared a Dangerous Sex Offender in 2014, and after his second annual review the Chief Justice ruled in favour of releasing him on a supervision order with 54 conditions.
Mr Martin said he was satisfied from the evidence put before him that Yates had made "significant progress ... to the point at which the community can be adequately protected by his release under supervision for a period of five years".
"Although the risk that Mr Yates might reoffend can never be entirely eliminated, the conditions to which he will be subject while under supervision should result in any circumstance which might significantly increase the risk of Mr Yates' reoffending coming to the attention of the authorities, who can then take appropriate action including, if necessary, bringing Mr Yates back before the court."
Under the conditions Yates is required to live at a specific address, not have any unauthorised contact with children and undergo counselling.
The court heard Yates had formed a relationship with a woman, with whom he plans to live.