Native American leaders warned senators last week that mass layoffs and potential benefit lapses are making this government shutdown more painful for their communities and insisted that the federal ...

Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate. The filibuster requires most legislation to get 60 votes, which has allowed ...

Optus boss Stephen Rue rejects the telco misled Communications Minister Anika Wells on the day of triple-0 outage, as executives from the company face a Senate inquiry today.  Follow live.

Optus has apologised after a catastrophic triple-0 outage, with CEO Stephen Rue telling government officials he was “deeply ...