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Quaden Bayles (left) has received support from YouTubers and celebrities like Hugh Jackman (right)

People around the world have rallied behind a nine-year-old Australian boy after a video of his deep distress over being bullied went viral.

Yarraka Bayles posted the clip of her son, Quaden, crying after he was targeted at school for his dwarfism.

"This is what bullying does," she says in the video, in which her son also says he wants to end his life.

The clip, viewed over 14 million times, has triggered an outpouring of support and #WeStandWithQuaden messages.

Celebrities including actor Hugh Jackman and basketball player Enes Kanter have spoken out, while parents in other countries have shared video messages from their children.

Jackman told Quaden "you are stronger than you know, mate" and called on everyone to "be kind".

In the confronting six-minute video, posted on Tuesday, Quaden's mother describes the relentless bullying experienced by her son every day. The family, who are Aboriginal Australian, live in Queensland.

"I've just picked my son up from school, witnessed a bullying episode, rang the principal, and I want people to know - parents, educators, teachers - this is the effect that bullying has," Ms Bayle says as her son sobs.

"Every single... day, something happens. Another episode, another bullying, another taunt, another name-calling.

"Can you please educate your children, your families, your friends?"

What's been the response?

The words #StopBullying were trending on Friday as people described their own experiences and urged Quaden to "stay strong".

Children in different countries have also posted messages of friendship.

US comedian Brad Williams, who has the same dwarfism condition of Achondroplasia, said he had raised more than $130,000 (£100,000) in less than a day to send the family to Disneyland.

"This isn't just for Quaden, this is for anyone who has been bullied in their lives and told they weren't good enough," he wrote on the fundraising page.

"Let's show Quaden and others, that there is good in the world and they are worthy of it."

Eric Trump, the son of the US president, described the video as "absolutely heartbreaking". Meanwhile basketball star Enes Kanter tweeted "the world is behind you" and invited the family to an NBA game.

Sports teams in Australia have also rallied behind Quaden, with the indigenous rugby league side inviting him to lead out the team at a match this weekend.

If you or someone you know needs support for issues around this story, in Australia you can contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636. In the UK these organisations may be able to help.

The family of Quaden Bayles, a nine-year-old Indigenous boy with dwarfism, will receive close to $200,000 in damages plus legal costs after an agreement was reached with the News Corp columnist Miranda Devine, who had suggested he had faked his own bullying.

The federal court will be told on Friday the parties have reached a settlement and the high-profile Daily Telegraph columnist has apologised on Twitter.

Devine retweeted the Twitter user @bubblebathgirl, who claimed Quaden was an actor whose mother had posted a fake sobbing video and collected $300,000 in donations.

The columnist said: “That’s really rotten if this was a scam. Hurts genuine bullying victims.” Despite being told by theMedia Watch host, Paul Barry, and others, the claims were untrue she did not delete her tweets and said: “Typical of your sloppy research @therealpbarry. I never mentioned anything about age. Dishonest diversion.”

Devine linked to the 19 September Twitter apology from her online column in the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday. It is understood the link was part of the settlement agreement. At the end of her column about Trump and the Supreme Court it said: “Miranda Devine’s Apology to the Bayles Family. My apology to the Bayles family can be found on my personal Twitter account http://twitter.com/mirandadevine.”

The settlement was reached after Justice Anna Katzmann found last month that Quaden had an arguable case that he had been defamed by Devine.

The case had been hampered by News Corp refusing to accept serviceon behalf of their columnist and an inability to serve the documents on Devine in person because she is in New York covering the US election.

According to the statement of claim News Corp said it was not responsible for Devine’s account which was “self-evidently a personal account and is published by Twitter”.

In February this year I posted some comments on my personal Twitter account about Quaden Bayles and his mother Yarraka. I now know those comments were hurtful and untrue. I sincerely apologise to the Bayles for those comments.
— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) September 19, 2020

Katzmann will hold a remote case management hearing on Friday morning at which Devine, who is on secondment for 18 months to Murdoch’s the New York Post, will be represented by Susan Goodman of Holding Redlich.

Goodman told Guardian Australia her client’s matter was confidential and she could not comment.

News Corp did not respond to a request for comment.

The terms of the settlement will not be made public but Guardian Australia understands that Quaden and his mother, Yarraka Bayles, will each receive almost $100,000, with the child’s settlement to be held in trust until he is 18 and the rest to be used to care for the boy who has achondroplasia dwarfism.

It is unclear whether Devine or News Corp Australia will pay the damages and costs.

A video by the Brisbane boy’s mother made global headlines in February after Quaden cried about being bullied at school and urged her to “give me a knife, I’m going to kill myself”.

The clip – used by Yarraka to highlight the effects of bullying – was met with an outpouring of support.

“I’ve just picked my son up from school, witnessed a bullying episode, rang the principal, and I want people to know, parents, educators, teachers, this is the effect that bullying has,” Yarraka said in the video which went viral.

“Every single ... day, something happens. Another episode, another bullying, another taunt, another name-calling. Can you please educate your children, your families, your friends?”

In February the Murri boy, who dreams of becoming a professional rugby player, walked on to the pitch with the players for an exhibition match in Queensland between Australia’s Indigenous All Stars, made up of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, and the New Zealand Māori.

Yarraka said Quaden was “going from the worst day of his life to the best day of his life” after the match.

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