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Operation Stitches: Kids Making Good Life Choices

“Dare to be a dreamer... ...Make good life choices” They are two of the key messages from Operation Stitches to disadvantaged children living on Melbourne’s public housing estates. A non-profit ...
By Matt Weedon and Michael Lynch - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, July 20, 2015

NAIDOC Week : 5th-12th July 2015

Inspired by the grief and courage of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people. At Tobin Brothers Funerals we look after people not just at the moment they lose their loved ones but we have...
By Samantha Rennie - Community Education Manager, Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, July 6, 2015

Youth Suicide Australia

The greatest number of deaths from suicide in Australia, are of teenagers between the ages of 15 and 19. There has also been an increase in suicides in those aged between 20 and 24 but Bureau of...
By Michael Lynch - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, June 22, 2015

Father Gerard Dowling

One of the most familiar voices heard on Melbourne radio every Sunday night between 10pm and midnight is Father Gerard Dowling, host of the family Counsellor program broadcast on RSN 927 AM. In th...
By Michael Lynch - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Unlimited Tenure

The era in which fathers told their sons to go out and get a good secure job for life is well and truly over. Today, the average Australian worker rarely stays with one employer for more than three...
By Amy Tobin - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, May 25, 2015

BEATING THE BLUES - A passionate interview with Jeff Kennett and De Backman-Hoyle

When Jeff Kennett, AC, accepted our invitation for an interview, we were eager to find out what drove the former Premier, with a reputation as a tough, outspoken, no-nonsense character, to become f...
By Matt Weedon - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, May 11, 2015

ACN Nursing and Health Expo 2015

This year The Australian College of Nursing (ACN) held their 15th ACN Nursing and Health Expo and Tobin Brothers Funerals was pleased to have attended. For the past fifteen years the ACN Nursing a...
By Samantha Rennie - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Sunday, April 26, 2015

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...