Prosecutor Sergeant Andrew Coombs has told Albury Local Court that David Graham Oliver's most recent offending warranted jail.

That was over two incidents when he punched his partner's sister and, just weeks later, repeatedly punched his partner to the head.

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"The (prosecutor's) suggestion's right; the threshold (for custody) has been crossed, there's no doubt about that," magistrate Richard Funston said, though defence lawyer Tim Hemsley argued for a lengthy community corrections order.

"Most of his record involves fairly short sentences of custody or conditional orders," Mr Hemsley said.

He said Oliver, 25, had already spent eight months in jail, bail refused.

"Most of his offending seems to be when he's on drugs."

The court agreed with Mr Hemsley that Oliver complete the men's behavioural change program and drug and alcohol counselling.

"It seems most of his offending is against the people he loves and the people who say they love him," he said.

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Oliver, of Kemp Street, Lavington, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm, common assault and contravention of an apprehended violence order over the first incident on December 28.

Police said Oliver went to his long-term partner's home in Ryan Road, Glenroy, about 3pm.

The woman's sister and grandmother then arrived to find Oliver inside sitting on a lounge chair.

All three told him to leave, then the sister and grandmother escorted him from the house.

Oliver punched the sister to the stomach and then to the side of the face, causing a blood nose and cut lip.

Oliver also pleaded guilty to charges of assault, possess a prohibited drug and contravention of an apprehended violence order over the second incident at his partner's home on January 18 where he punched her several times to the head.

He was placed on an 18-month community corrections order.

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