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Kempsey students walk down Reconciliation Week to confront town's Indigenous trauma

About 1,500 school students took part in today's reconciliation walk at Kempsey. (ABC Coffs Coast: Nick Parmeter)

Year nine student Tess Booth is among more than 1,000 students who have taken step towards confronting her town's traumatic Indigenous history. 

Elders sang songs as Ms Booth and 1,500 students from 15 schools in the Macleay Valley on New South Wales' Mid North Coast today took part in a Reconciliation Week walk at Kempsey's Eden Street Field.

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