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Turnbull broadens abuse inquiry
A culture of racism, brutality, and official cover-up in the Northern Territory's discredited juvenile justice system will be centrally examined by a royal commission formally established on Thursday by the federal government.
![Tawny Nelson with three of her four kids.](/web/20160820110625im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/f/w/r/m/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqfwoh.png/1469687330873.jpg)
Elderly man rescues single mum and her four kids from nightmare situation
Stranded at night, in the pouring rain with her four young children, Tawny Nelson was struggling to find someone who would help her.
![Dylan Voller, who spent time in Don Dale Juvenile Detention Centre.](/web/20160820110625im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/e/c/p/t/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqecvh.png/1470108110436.jpg)
'Thanks for getting the truth out there': Boy at centre of detention abuse revelation speaks
Dylan Voller, the boy strapped to a restraining chair and with the hood placed over his head inside a Northern Territory detention centre, has penned a letter thanking his supporters for "getting the truth out there."
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Six year old gives us all a lesson in compassion
It was just another hot summer day for six-year-old Janiyah Lewis when the youngster noticed a homeless man crying.
![Stuart Kelly, the younger brother of one punch victim Thomas Kelly, died on Monday.](/web/20160820110625im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/j/o/d/z/0/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqdp0a.png/1470278673269.jpg)
Thomas Kelly's family grieve after death of younger son Stuart
Four years after 18-year-old Thomas Kelly was senselessly killed in a one-punch attack in Sydney's Kings Cross, the Kelly family have experienced another devastating loss.
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The youth justice system is a slippery slope of failure
As a lawyer in the Northern Territory, I saw children lose their teenage years to a broken youth justice system.
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Jocelyn Lewis, 5, found hungry and 'chatty' after 23-hour search
The 'beautiful, well-natured' five-year-old was last seen on Sunday afternoon.
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Parents arrested after five-year-old boy dies at water park
The parents of a five-year-old boy who died at a Leicestershire water park in the UK were being questioned by police today.
![George Boyland, Jesse Stringer, Kodi Ailing and Michael Parker sporting their school skirts.](/web/20160820110625im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/c/w/d/i/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqcwee.png/1469405932082.jpg)
School punished pupils for wearing shorts – so these boys wore skirts instead
A group of English schoolboys were forbidden from wearing shorts in lessons – so, during last week's heatwave, they took to coming to school in skirts instead.
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Girl, 5, goes missing from Nerang family
Police, SES scour area near M1 searching for missing girl.
![April Corcoran and Shandell Willingham.](/web/20160820110625im_/http://www.essentialkids.com.au/content/dam/images/g/q/a/q/j/y/image.related.landscape.300x200.gqapyp.png/1469077621565.jpg)
Mother jailed for 51 years after using daughter to finance her drug addiction
"I can honestly say that, in three-and-a-half years on the bench, this is by far the worst thing that has come before this court," said Judge Leslie Ghiz.
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