We’re here for the brokers who quietly do brilliant work.
Every day, brokers across Australia change people’s lives — getting the self-employed client across the line, finding a way for the family everyone else said no to, walking a nervous first home buyer through the biggest purchase of their life. We built the Australian Finance Awards to celebrate that work properly.
Why we built this
Australia already has plenty of awards for the biggest names and the biggest numbers. We wanted something different — a program that looks past the loudest players and recognises brokers doing genuinely exceptional work, whatever their size, whatever their niche.
So we made the whole thing free to enter, we judge every entry on its merits, and we created categories for the specialists nobody else thinks to honour.
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Recognition for specialists
Alongside the headline awards, we celebrate the experts others overlook — the brokers who’ve mastered expat lending, self-employed clients, medico borrowers, first home buyers, guarantor structures and more. If you’ve carved out a niche, there’s a place for you here.
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Judging you can actually trust
We publish exactly how winners are chosen — a considered blend of your written entry, verified performance data and real customer reviews. Our sponsors and partners help us keep the lights on and entry free, but they have no say in who wins. None. See how judging works
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Free to enter, always
Great work shouldn’t be pay-to-play. Entering costs nothing, so the best brokers compete on what they actually do — not on the size of their marketing budget.
A celebration that runs all year
These awards aren’t a single night — they’re a series of events across the year, each shining a light on a different corner of the industry. We’re starting with the people who inspired the whole idea: Australia’s mortgage and finance brokers. More professions will follow.
Our promise to you
Every entry is judged fairly, by a panel that steps aside from any conflict of interest. Performance claims get verified. And we’ll never hand out an award in a category that didn’t attract real competition — because a title only means something when it’s truly earned.
Win one of these, and it’s yours to stand behind — and something the whole industry can trust.