Victor's early learning journey (1:00)

My grandparents were trying to bring me Maningrida community, trying to put me school. My family seen all the violent people, all the different clan groups and language groups. Alright, we’ll go back bush, we’ll stay there and then teach our way.

And suddenly, a couple of years back, mum from Darwin come up and took me in Darwin, just put me a little bit of schools, in the best schools, Tiwi primary schools. Going to school there maybe a couple of years, two, three years. I had really good support, good teacher, respect, countryman, Aboriginal countryman, and really good teacher and principal.

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