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It’s Not Easy Being Green…Or Perhaps It Is

With the environment moving to the front of society’s conscience, many people are now planning their funerals with future generations in mind and looking for more environmentally friendly options. ...
By Wendy Goy & Matt Weedon - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Wednesday, October 22, 2014

A Night At The Museum

Just as Ben Stiller described his experience in the 2006 film Night at the Museum as "freakin’ awesome", so too was the official opening of the Tobin Brothers Funerals Museum on Thursday 9th Octobe...
By Matt Weedon – Tobin Brothers Funerals
Friday, October 17, 2014

Alzheimer’s Australia Vic

One in four Australians over the age of 85 is living with dementia and without a medical breakthrough, this insidious and incurable disease will claim many more victims. In this podcast, Michael Ly...
By Michael Lynch – Tobin Brothers Funerals
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

The Tobin Brothers Funerals Team

We receive consistent feedback from our clients that our staff are professional, caring and empathetic. We’re often asked where we find these wonderful people and told to “hang onto” them. “Wonder...
By Wendy Goy – Training and HR Manager, Tobin Brothers Funerals
Tuesday, October 7, 2014

A Day in the Life of a Funeral Planner

The Day in the Life of Series, produced by Tobin Brothers Funerals, are unique documentaries that takes a behind the scenes look at our company, where you’ll meet real people with real stories to t...
By Matt Weedon – Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, September 15, 2014

Dinner for Dollars: Tobin Brothers Foundation Fundraiser 2014

  An invitation to a ‘dazzling evening with entertainment, dinner, drinks, dancing and a silent auction’ certainly fulfilled its promise at the 2014 Tobin Brothers Foundation Fundraising Dinn...
By Laura Flowerday
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Making a Difference

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” (Winston Churchill) During the past two years through our work at Tobin Brothers – Creative Communication, my colleague, Matt...
By Michael Lynch - Creative Communications, Tobin Brothers Funerals
Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Previous Posts

Lessons from Fr Bob Maguire

In 1960, Rev Fr Robert Maguire AM PE RFD affectionately known to all as Fr Bob was ordained. Over the last 60-plus years, so many of our team members at Tobin Brothers have had the privilege to wor...

Introducing… Tough Times from the Heart

Introducing… Tough Times from the Heart Tobin Brothers Funerals has joined forces with SPAN CV to bring greater awareness to suicide prevention. 3144 Australians died by suicide in 2021, accordin...

Celebrating Father Gerard Dowling

  Today we would like to pay tribute to Fr Gerard Dowling OAM DE. In recent weeks he celebrated his 90th birthday and also the 49th anniversary of him being on air with the Family Counsellor...

The day Queen Elizabeth II came to Frankston

It was Friday 7th March 1986 and I was 15 years old, attending Ballam Park Technical School in Frankston.  One of the largest schools in the area, Ballam Park had been selected for Que...

Christmas Message 2021

  In 2020, they said it was a year that we will remember, we can add 2021 to that also. Back-to-back unforgettable years. The last two years have challenged us all in so many varied ways, an...

Escape from Neil’s Wheel: Good Friday Appeal Fundraiser

  Victoria’s Good Friday Appeal, is one of the most important annual events in the state, raising funds to enable The Royal Children’s hospital in Melbourne to provide world class care for ...

Christmas Message 2020

In our lifetimes there has never been a more important time to gather. As 2020 commenced, after our country was crippled with bushfires and so many tragically lost their homes and some their loved...