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Rachel Clayton

In the regional city of Geelong, parents who have lost children to suicide fear not enough action is being taken

After the funeral, when the flowers stopped arriving and everything went quiet, Kim Edgar took an axe to the hibiscus outside Dan's bedroom window.

Its trunk had cracked down the middle the week before Dan died by suicide at the age of 17 in 2018.

Kim had gripped the axe and thrown herself into the bush, tearing apart its dry branches, and ripping out its damp roots.

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