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Valda Twaddle Trust Awards 2017
In 2006 I received a telephone call from Perry Westons Lawyers regarding funds that were bequeathed to me. I made an appointment to attend their offices and in doing so I learnt that Valda Tw...
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Monday, March 26, 2018
Cultural Diversity Week : Premier's Gala 2018
Tobin Brothers Funerals is honored to have over 200 wonderful staff from a diverse range of cultures and religions who together can speak 28 different languages. This year we’re once again proud to...
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Monday, March 19, 2018
Funerals Are Too Important To Leave To Just Anyone
As Managing Director of Australia’s largest owned family funeral company, Tobin Brothers Funerals, I would like to make the following comments on the widely reported alleged coffin swapping by Hart...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Art For The Heart 2017
“Wonderful, Emotive,
Beautiful, Inspirational!
I come every year
and wouldn’t miss it.”
Effusive acclamation from some of the many visitors to Tobin Brothers Funerals annual Art for the H...
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
The Life Celebration of Daniel Harkins
On 18th June 2017, Daniel John Edward Harkins was returning from Bairnsdale after a race meeting when he stopped to assist a car that had run off the road between Sale and Rosedale, he was tra...
Monday, July 10, 2017
Celebrating our People : 2017 Twenty Year Club Inductions
If anyone had suggested to me back in the 1980s that I would eventually swap my career as a radio announcer/journalist for work in the funeral industry, I would probably have said “You must be joki...
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
It’s your funeral, an investigation of death care in the Funeral Industry in Australia Comment
As Managing Director of Tobin Brothers I’d like to make the following comments on a recently released paper “It’s your funeral, an investigation of death care in the Funeral Industry...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
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...
