Veterans' Affairs 'killed my son': ex-soldier's parents

By Carolyn Webb
Updated August 22 2017 - 11:23pm, first published 10:28pm
Rally for a Royal Commission into the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Memorial Service for the 326 Veterans who have taken their own lives since the war in Afghanistan held in the CBD. 22 August 2017. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim.
Ross Grant and his former wife Lisha Taylor at the rally. Their son Jason Grant served in Afghanistan and passed away in July this year in Australia.
Rally for a Royal Commission into the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Memorial Service for the 326 Veterans who have taken their own lives since the war in Afghanistan held in the CBD. 22 August 2017. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim. Ross Grant and his former wife Lisha Taylor at the rally. Their son Jason Grant served in Afghanistan and passed away in July this year in Australia.

Standing in the crowd at a rally calling for a royal commission into the Department of Veterans' Affairs were the parents of Jason Grant, a veteran of Afghanistan who died of a suspected drug overdose at his Ferny Creek home just a month ago.

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