What is the difference between a death notice and an obituary in Australia?

So they're basically synonymous. So a death notice, also known as a family notice is something you would pen as a family to submit to the paper. They're not as common these days with the onset of social media, but a lot of families still do submit death notices to the paper. So to be able to create a death notice, you could write a little description about your loved one passing away and a little notice as a family. It can be as detailed or as succinct as you'd like. I always say to my families keep it quite succinct if you can because they can be quite expensive. A lot of families these days do just like to post something on social media and sometimes funeral directors also have a website or a special page on their website where they can submit a little online death notice for you that can be shared on social media by a link along with, any live-streaming and things like that. So you'll find that the newspaper death notices are becoming less and less these days.