Ashley McLeay, 24, of Orchard Grove Road, was given the order in April 2018, for punching another man, causing his ear to bleed, at Centrelink in January, 2018.

Magistrate David Day said he thought he was lenient with the first sentence and when it came to resentencing "the penalties don't go down, they go yup".

"Your client was very lucky not to go to jail on the first sentence," Mr Day told solicitor Paul Johnson in court.

Mr Day replaced the community service order with a stricter nine-month Intensive Correction Order, which is a custodial sentence that is served in the community.

"If he breaches the ICO it doesn't come back before me, it goes before the state parole authority," Mr Day said.