Podcasts
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 ...
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Tuesday, December 30, 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
How to use a "Phone-a-Tribute" service for funerals
The few things that have made the world a far smaller place than it once was are air travel, the telephone and technology that allows us to connect with one another like never before.
Not everyone...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Alzheimer’s Australia Vic
One in four Australians over the age of 85 is living with dementia and without a medical breakthrough, this insidious and incurable disease will claim many more victims. In this podcast, Michael Ly...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Exhumation
Many funerals conclude at a cemetery with the burial of a coffin or casket.
In some cases however, members of a family may subsequently decide they would like their loved one’s remains exhumed and...
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Friday, May 9, 2014
The Tobin Story – Chapter 8 : The 6 C’s
In celebration of the 80th anniversary of our funeral company we invite you to listen to the final chapter of The Tobin Story. James MacLeod, Tobin Brothers Funerals Managing Director, introduces a...
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Friday, April 11, 2014
The Tobin Story – Chapter 7 : The Multicultural Funeral Company
In celebration of the 80th anniversary of our funeral company we invite you to listen to chapter seven of The Tobin Story.
The growing company has employees from a diverse range of ethnicities and...
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Friday, April 4, 2014
Previous Posts
Light The Night Walk: Fighting Leukaemia
Blood cancer is one of the world's most prevalent diseases and in Australia sadly, it kills one person every 42 minutes. The need for more money for research into blood cancer will be brought into...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...