The Australian Financial Review

Mable’s technology-driven platform empowers choice for older Australians, making it the Customer Champions winner in the Challenger Business to Consumer category. Read about the winner here: https://ebx.sh/P9TAAc

Family pub groups and fund managers are competing for top venues as pub investment surges in the face of declining beer consumption and economic headwinds. Read more: https://ebx.sh/IGGR6K

The Nationals will water down their policy on emissions reductions before Christmas, but it might not be enough to stop Barnaby Joyce joining One Nation. Read more: https://ebx.sh/Q6GaJ2

The now former Duke of York is under fire over claims he passed on sensitive information to try to discredit accuser Virginia Giuffre. Read more: https://ebx.sh/fjBMNi

The country’s medicines regulator has privately detailed its concerns about a popular testing laboratory as high-profile sunscreen brands are pulled off the shelf. Read more: https://ebx.sh/IkgzRH

With more than 100 entries from multinationals, large companies, new businesses, and government agencies, selecting our 2025 Customer Champions required rigour. Finalists were assessed on three dimensions: distinctive customer value, attractive shareholder value and a unique approach to business. Read more about the judging process: https://ebx.sh/T9p9cs

The Victorian Liberal Party is coming up so empty on names that it’s turned to an external recruitment agency to help find a new state director. Read the latest Rear Window: https://ebx.sh/wQp9vM

Aware Super has been named the joint winner of the Established Business to Consumer category of the Financial Review Customer Champions list – the second year in a row it topped the category. Judges praised the superannuation fund's "standout" focus on members and its transformation since chief executive Deanne Stewart took the reins in 2018. “When she took it over, it was a mess,” one industry analyst said. “She’s been able to manage the merger and manage the outcome and manage the systems investment in that time." Read more about the winner here: https://ebx.sh/p0pjLp

Rex's recent incident has highlighted an industry crisis. Without a technology leap to justify huge fleet upgrades, the economics of keeping Australia connected don’t stack up. Here's why: https://ebx.sh/yQyz7Y

The construction time for new houses, apartments and townhouses has fallen for the first time in a decade.