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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
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 Healing Power of Art Therapy
‘Art for the Heart’ held at the Yarra Gallery, Federation Square in November and December 2014 was a significant exhibition whose objective was to educate society and provide people with a venue to...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
Making A Will : What You Should Know
When your time comes to leave this world, what would you like to leave to members of your family?
In this podcast, Mary Amerena of State Trustees explains that the legal reality is that unless you...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Poverty In Australia
“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
John F Kennedy
Fifty years ago, social critic Donald Horne dubbed Australia “The Lucky Country”. Sadly f...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Christmas Remembered
“They were the best of times, they were the worst of times.”
Charles Dickens (A Tale of two Cities)
Christmas times are often amongst a family’s happiest memories; for many, they were indeed the b...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014
Salvation Army @ Christmas
Synonymous with the festive season are Salvation Army Bands playing Christmas Carols outside shopping centres in the hope that shoppers will open their hearts and their wallets to help feed and buy...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014
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Say It Now Week "Appreciation"
One of the very great sadness’s associated with the sudden death of a family member or close friend can, for the bereaved, be the lingering anguish and heartache associated with their not having to...
Six Songs That “Say It Now”
We Australians have always been a stoic lot - most of us are well-practiced in keeping emotions to ourselves. I often get the impression that Aussies of a certain age would rather have a tooth pull...
Prostate Cancer Breakthrough
"Together in Discovery and Care" is the theme for the 19th Asia-Pacific Prostate Cancer Conference taking place in Brisbane from the 22-25 August 2018.
Prostate cancer is the most c...
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...
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...
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...
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...