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 ...

Police have incorrectly given official warnings to at least 100 people under the O'Farrell government's consorting laws, which have been criticised for putting too many people at risk of being ...

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 ...

It must be something in the Canberra water. First, the Prime Minister reintroduces an archaic system of honours and doffs Australia's collective cap towards Buckingham Palace. Now, the ACT government ...

The comments follow an appeal by the Attorney-General after alleged Villains gang member Harley Barbaro successfully fought consorting charges in the Southport Magistrates Court in March. A magistrate ...

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 ...

Charlie Maxwell Foster was yesterday granted leave to appeal against his conviction, withdrawing his previous guilty plea, after a state prosecutor conceded there were "essential elements" missing ...

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, ...