The judge ordered the 51-year-old White to serve at least eight years and three months in prison before he can be eligible for parole.
Scott White pleaded guilty in January to the murder of 27-year-old Scott Johnson, whose body was discovered in December 1988 at the bottom of a cliff in Sydney's North Head Beach district. An Australian man who admitted to killing a gay American student in 1988 has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
