More Lives Than Your Average Cat

If you had attended the recent Rotary Club of North Melbourne's annual Phonse Tobin Volunteer Awards may have met Phonse's brother Des Tobin.

Well though Des has written a book about Phonse's amazing life, he has also crammed more lives into his own 80 years than your average cat. He has variously been a failed student, a discontented panel beater apprentice, a youth worker, a springboard diver, a junior pole-vaulter, a VFL and Olympic Australian Rules footballer, a business executive in the funeral industry, a golfing tragic, a university lecturer and a prolific writer.

Des's signature guest speaker talk - More Lives than your average Cat - is filled with interesting stories, spiked with amusing anecdotes and carries positive and optimistic messages.