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Parents of young solder who took his life call for change

Published 25 October 2022, 7:53 am
The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide has been told how the isolation of remote postings can turn deadly. The parents of Private Tom Halloran relayed how a broken system missed the opportunity to save their son who had been posted away from family support in Darwin. Northern Territory Correspondent Laetitia Lemke has more.
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