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What is a Power of Attorney?

Deciding whom to nominate as your Enduring Power of Attorney is as important as making a will. A Power of Attorney, POA, allows that person to make decisions for you and in some cases they can e...
By Michael Lynch - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, September 28, 2015

Kids Help Line

Kids Help Line is Australia’s only free private and confidential phone and online counselling service for people aged 5 to 25. Promising to care and listen, any time for any reason, Kids Helpline ...
By Michael Lynch - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Our Fatherless Father’s Day

The tools, ties and socks catalogues start rolling in way too soon for those of us who will have no father or child to be with this Father’s Day. But the spiritual presence of Dad can still be cel...
By Samantha Rennie - Community Education Manager, Tobin Brothers Funerals
In Grief
Monday, August 31, 2015

Tribute to Bart Cummings

Australia lost an icon in sport with the passing of James Bartholomew [Bart] Cummings in the early hours of Sunday August 30th 2015. Bart’s health had deteriorated over recent years and he had been...
By Bryan Martin OAM - This is Your Racing Life
Sunday, August 30, 2015

Living With Motor Neurone Disease and Finding a Cure

Although the number of Australians diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) each year is significantly lower than for other terminal illnesses, it still remains a devastating physical and emotion...
By Matt Weedon and Michael Lynch - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, August 17, 2015

A Fundraiser to Remember…

The 2015 Tobin Brothers Foundation Dinner certainly did put the FUN in fundraiser. Billed as ‘The Greatest Night on Earth’, Friday 7th August saw the Tobin Brothers Foundation celebrate a carnival ...
By Laura Flowerday - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, August 10, 2015

Rapid Autopsies Used To Fight Ovarian Cancer

Each year in Australia about 1500 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and tragically far too many do not survive. But in a recent ABC Radio National interview, Professor David Bowtell said th...
By Michael Lynch and David Stevens - Tobin Brothers Funerals
Monday, August 3, 2015

Previous Posts

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 ...

The loss of an infant or child

From the first dream… From the first moment we dream of them, our babies and children matter. They become part of the very fabric of who we are. All our children, birthed or dreamt of, alive or de...

Thank you from Guide Dogs Victoria

Established in 1984 to mark the company’s 50th anniversary, the Tobin Brothers Foundation makes annual grants to organisations and individuals whose work can be shown to have meaningful “community ...

Get the Test Done

  In March 2020 I turned 50, it was a very quiet celebration as we had just commenced going into COVID19 lockdown. A few weeks after I turned 50 a parcel arrived for me in the post, a prese...

Tobin Brothers are here to help

  Funerals are an important time for family and friends to come together as a community to express our love and process our thoughts and feelings about the death of someone we love. The funer...

Celebrating International Women's Day 2020

At Tobin Brothers Funerals we are lucky enough to have 245 incredible staff. Today, 50% are female. It’s amazing to think that when recently retired Marnie Duncan commenced at Tobin Brothers over 4...