Sam Petrevski-Seton grew up in Halls Creek, Western Australia. A remote community 29 hours' drive from Perth or a three-hour flight to Kununurra – at the Northern Territory border – followed by a long-haul trek across the state.

The population of the East Kimberly community is around 1000, and the local football turf is fenced off from the main street of Halls Creek, surrounded by local artwork painted on car bonnets and red dirt.

This is where Petrevski-Seton laced up his boots at seven years of age, to play his first competitive football match for the Halls Creek Cowboys in the East Kimberly junior division.

A few years later - at age 12 - Petrevski-Seton took up bull riding, as well as helping at Burk's Cattle station in the deep north of outback Australia.

When he was 13, Petrevski-Seton was chosen for the senior team in the Halls Creek Hawks, juggling both sports competitively until rising through Claremont's WAFL ranks, and being selected with Carlton's first pick (sixth overall) in the 2016 national draft.

Now - after the trade to West Coast - he has been able to return home to Halls Creek for the first time in just over a year.

"It's a great feeling to be back home amongst family and friends where I grew up, it's a good vibe up here at the moment," Petrevski-Seton said.

"It's been great to see everyone, they're all really happy, I can say there's a lot of West Coast supporters back here, and most of them are my family who can't wait to see me in the blue and gold this year."

As well as reconnecting with family and friends, Petrevski-Seton has also joined forces with Gold Coast defender Jy Farrar and Collingwood's Ash Johnson to spread vaccination awareness to the Halls Creek community.

Petrevski-Seton visited the Halls Creek clinic in the community recreation centre – alongside the aforementioned players – taking photos and signing t-shirts organised for those who got vaccinated.

"The goal was to help the community get vaccinated, whether it was their first or second shot," he said.

"We're at a higher risk of getting sick if we do get COVID up here, it's very high risk of people in our community.

"So especially the elders, it's important for them to get vaccinated, and obviously the younger ones coming up, so it was very good to help out.

"We also explained to them why we got vaccinated, how it can help into the future, and also trying to get the percentages up.

"I think about 50-odd people came down to the local recreation centre and got vaccinated.

"So it was a good day."