![Khalid Albaih's cartoon comparing Omran Daqneesh with drowned toddler Alan Kurdi.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/w/8/a/b/image.related.landscape.380x253.gqw89t.png/1471590267154.jpg)
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Indigenous dads respond to Bill Leak's horrible cartoon in the most powerful way
#IndigenousDads is a lesson in how to counter hate with love.
![Brett Peter Cowan, jailed for the murder of Daniel Morcombe, has been attacked in prison.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/g/w/w/3/5/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqlpq7.png/1470443662050.jpg)
Daniel Morcombe's killer Brett Cowan attacked in prison
Man who killed Sunshine Coast schoolboy taken to hospital.
![Blogger Mel Watts with her husband Nolan.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/i/3/f/q/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqk21m.png/1470197793397.jpg)
Mel Watts of The Modern Mumma: 'keyboard trolls you won'
In the video, a tearful Mel Watts admits that "going viral isn't all that."
![After surviving the night together on the Ophir Reserve, Rhianna Ryan and Marley Aplin, both 7, are excited to be home](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/j/x/5/n/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqjwhp.png/1470192392377.jpg)
Bonded together forever: harrowing camping ordeal cements friendship
After surviving a night huddled together against the wintery elements two Orange girls are celebrating their strengthened bond.
![Leena Al-Arian with Lenny and one of her two daughters.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/j/s/y/0/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqjrxr.png/1470287436104.jpg)
90-year-old man offers heartfelt apology to Muslim mother
Young mum Leena Al-Arian was at a bookstore with her two young daughters, when a 90-year-old man named Lenny approached her with a tearful apology.
![The bouncy castle took flight in frightening fashion in Kalgoorlie.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/i/2/e/z/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqi2nf.png/1470105150070.jpg)
Photo emerges of bouncy castle flying through air at Kalgoorlie races
Incredible photos have emerged of a bouncy castle flying through the air at a race meet in Kalgoorlie on Sunday - fortunately with nobody aboard.
![Fellsha Gillette with her son Wyatt during the ceremony.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/i/t/j/p/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqit77.png/1470094328273.jpg)
Terminally ill eight-year-old dies one day after being made honorary U.S. Marine
Wyatt Gillette spent most of his life fighting a rare terminal disease. The eight-year-old, who was the son of a Marine drill instructor, was named an honorary Marine on Saturday.
![Big W customers around Australia have complained about the sale of the latest J.K. Rowling book, <em>Harry Potter and ...](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/h/k/4/e/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqi2iq.png/1470038564224.jpg)
Harry Potter fans unleash on Big W
Big W customers across Australia have written of their "disgust and anger" at the handling of the sale the new Harry Potter book.
![Henry with mum Laura and dad Rob.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/i/2/j/3/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqi2hi.png/1470013447796.jpg)
'Half-a-heart Henry' who inspired millions dies aged just nine
A boy dubbed "Half-a-heart Henry", whose story resonated with millions, has died aged just nine years old.
![Flower girl Chloe's (right) runaway attempt had the guests, and now the world laughing.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/i/1/g/2/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqi1d1.png/1470011358807.jpg)
Runaway flower girl is better than Kate and Will's grumpy flower girl
Melbourne couple Katie and Tom Quirk, have something in common with Kate and Will: just like the grumpy (and very cute) Grace van Cutsem, one of their own flower girls was a scene-stealer on their big day. And the very funny video is going viral.
![A witness filmed the moments after the elephant threw a rock that struck a girl at the zoo in Morocco.](/web/20160820103420im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/g/8/w/j/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqg8tm.png/1469747960202.jpg)
Girl, 7, dies after elephant throws rock from enclosure at Morocco zoo
A seven-year-old girl has died in a freak accident at a Moroccan zoo when an elephant threw a rock that struck the child in the head, the zoo has confirmed.
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