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Compassionate Employer Recognition Awards 2015
Why is it that the positive news stories so seldom make the papers? Perceptions of workplace relations can be skewed with tales of staff being underpaid, bullied, taken advantage of or failing...
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Monday, March 30, 2015
Cultural Diversity Week : VIVA Festival Day 2015
The Viva Victoria Festival was held at Federation Square on Sunday 22nd March 2015 to celebrate Melbourne’s cultural diversity and embrace cultures and traditions from all over the world.
Federati...
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Sunday, March 22, 2015
Cultural Diversity Week: Premier’s Gala Dinner 2015
What is it about the word 'Gala' in front of an event that makes the heart skip a beat? In my mind’s eye GALA stands for Glamour-Achievements-Lovely things-Adventure! So when asked to represent Tob...
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Monday, March 16, 2015
Tobin Brothers Foundation – Celebrating those who make a difference
We’re all familiar with the larger Australian charity organisations we’ve grown up with and come to admire and respect, but what of the smaller and equally worthy not for profit organisations? How ...
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Monday, March 2, 2015
Celebrating Transparency, Celebrating Lives
When I was appointed Managing Director of Tobin Brothers Funerals in February 2011, I had many things on my ‘to do’ list.
One of my main priorities was to take the transparency of Tobin Brothers F...
Monday, February 23, 2015
The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation
For more than 140 years, Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital has provided outstanding medical care to children and adolescents throughout Australia and today it is one of the world’s leading paed...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015
The Long Goodbye - Continued
Two of this year’s Academy Award nominations will have a very poignant significance for Hollywood movie makers.
Many of the stars who once graced the silver screen, amongst them Ronald Regan, Char...
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Monday, February 2, 2015
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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...
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...
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...
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...
