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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Monday, August 3, 2015
Tribute to Peter Banfield
Introduction:
James MacLeod's recreational pursuits are playing cricket, golf, horse racing, and the Blackburn Football Club of which he is the immediate Past President.
In this blog post, J...
Thursday, July 30, 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...
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...