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 ...

The proposed anti-consorting laws, announced this week by Attorney-General Simon Corbell, reflect a recent trend in Australia to criminalise normal social contact and to undermine freedom of ...

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 ...

Queensland's anti-consorting laws have helped disrupt outlaw bikie gang rides and meetings, dismantle criminal networks and made the state safer, police say.

The state's Ombudsman says Tasmania Police has not recently issued any consorting warnings to convicted offenders due to two challenges to served notices before the Magistrates Court.

Police sources within the Organised Crime Gangs Group claim the pair have both been issued official warnings for consorting, essentially banning them from associating with each other either face ...

A 21-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed for a year after "consorting" with his housemate, in the first conviction under controversial new laws in NSW. Charlie Maxwell Foster pleaded guilty to the new ...

The barrister for a “family man” accused of consorting with alleged outlaw motorcycle gang Mongol members in Cairns has had a “bit of a whinge” in court. Ricky Scott Haynes, 30 ...