When Nikki Jamieson saw her son, Daniel Garforth, go off to join the Australian Defence Forces in 2012, she did not expect it would set him on a course that would end with him dying by suicide. However, in November 2014, the 21-year-old army private took his own life at Darwin’s Robertson Barracks. He left a suicide note which read: “The thing that’s finally pushed me over the edge is this job. Constantly being demoralised and ridiculed. I just couldn’t handle it anymore.” Sitting with her son’s photo and slouch hat in front of her, the grieving mum told the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide on Monday (pdf) that Garforth’s death was the result of “the endless torment of being bullied, belittled, ostracised and targeted by a certain member of his chain of command.” “Several factors contributed to my son’s decline, including the mental health impact of not seeing …