MARK COLVIN: In New South Wales, police are armed with Australia's toughest anti-bikie laws. The revived consorting laws mean anyone can be jailed for communicating with convicted criminals. But the ...

New South Wales Police are defending their use of controversial anti-consorting laws after figures showed more than 8,500 warnings had been issued during the past four years. FOI documents show 8,556 ...

A Queensland man has pleaded guilty and been fined for habitually consorting with known offenders, including one instance at his daughter’s christening. Matthew Kevin Mackay, 33, pleaded guilty in the ...

An alleged Gold Coast bikie and alleged club associate have launched a business - frustrating police who say there are ‘embarrassing’ loopholes in consorting laws. Company records show Southport ...

The consorting law in New South Wales makes it a criminal offence for a person to continue to associate or communicate with at least two people who have previously been convicted of an indictable ...

Over two days this week, the court heard a challenge to consorting laws that were passed in April 2012, after a spate of drive-by shootings in the southwest of Sydney. The Crimes Amendment (Consorting ...

The consorting warning notice served on accused criminal gang member Harley Barbaro was invalid, it has been claimed in court. Barbaro, who is accused of being a member of the Villains criminal gang, ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It must be something in the Canberra water. First, the Prime Minister reintroduces an archaic system ...

A 21-year-old man has become the first person sentenced under the state government's controversial new consorting laws, a magistrate saying the community was concerned about criminals of all kinds ...

Over two days this week, the court heard a challenge to consorting laws that were passed in April 2012, after a spate of drive-by shootings in the southwest of Sydney. The Crimes Amendment (Consorting ...

Alleged Mongols figure Nick ‘the Knife’ Forbes has been issued a consorting warning notice banning him from contacting dozens of associates. Here’s why. But Forbes, who this week finished up his ...