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The cast for Alone Australia Season 2 is here! Meet the seven men and three women who’ll be dropped in the wilds of Aotearoa’s South Island alone. The ten new participants will try to outlast each other and the elements on the South Island of New Zealand to win $250,000.
The show, in which participants are isolated from the world and each other, stripped of modern possessions, contact and comforts, to self-document their experience, with the last one standing winning $250,000, is the follow up to the successful first series of the show last year.
The new season take place on the South Island of New Zealand, where, with no camera crews or help from the production team, participants must fend for themselves, sourcing food, water, shelter, and warmth using only their wits, ten chosen survival items and the natural resources at hand.
Unable to contact other participants and unaware of who remains in the competition, the ten cast must battle their own emotional, psychological, and physical limits. Who will survive and walk away with $250,000?!
Meet Alone Australia Season 2 Cast
Introducing the ten competitors of Alone Australia Season 2. Let’s get to meet them
Jason
Age: 36
Occupation: Youth Worker
Home state: NSW
A proud Yanyuwa, Waanyi/Garawa man and Jungai, Jason is also a highly respected and strongly connected community leader.
Currently a youth worker, Jason has also worked as a rugby player and coach, spending a lot of his adult life focused on support, strength, and resilience work.
He spent much of his childhood camping, hunting, and fishing with his dad, before connecting with his family and community on his mother’s country in Borroloola, NT in his early adulthood. Here he learnt traditional hunting, fishing, and foraging techniques and now he combines both modern and traditional hunting methods and equipment.
Currently settled in regional NSW with his wife and much-loved dogs, Jason has lived across Australia in regional and rural locations ranging from the hot, red dirt deserts of the Northern Territory to the cold alpine highlands of Tasmania. The isolated wilds of Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa are about to put him to a whole new test.
‘I’m an adventurous spirit. There’s no room to hide in a challenge like this; the only person to blame is yourself if something goes wrong. This is the ultimate challenge a human can experience.’
Leanne
Age: 41
Occupation: World Heritage Aboriginal Programs Officer
Home state: VIC
A proud Barkandji woman, Leanne spent much of her childhood living on Country, fishing and foraging with her family, which instilled in her a great love of the bush.
Leanne works as a World Heritage Aboriginal Officer, in which she preserves culture and artefacts and documents archaeology and history.
After over a decade of dedicating herself to motherhood, Leanne is looking forward to reconnecting with herself and finding clarity about her future. If she wins, she’ll use the prize money to buy land on her traditional Country.
Leanne’s outdoor skills have been tested on dry, open, red dirt bush. The wild west of Aotearoa’s South Island is about to test her mettle for the exact opposite: a wet, dense and dark rainforest.
‘I’ve spent my whole life going out bush. Growing up on Country you learn to be self-reliant. Learning to read Country, animals and the way they move helps you hunt them. I know a bit… and using all of that will get me through this.’
Andreas
Age: 42
Occupation: Personal Trainer & Subsistence Hunter
Home state: NSW
Andreas is a Swedish-Aussie who loves mountain-biking and is a big hunter – not for sport but for personal food. In fact, Andreas supplies 90% of the protein he and his partner eat, which he butchers, processes, and stores himself, despite living in the inner-city.
Having grown up in Sweden, he is no stranger to cold weather, but the punishing rain and humidity of a cold rainforest environment is going to present a whole new challenge.
‘I’m confident my body can handle this. I have tested myself in the past, but there’s a big difference between holding your breath for four minutes versus staying out in the bush for three months…’
Krystof
Age: 39
Occupation: Aquaculturalist
Home state: VIC
Krzysztof was raised in a Polish refugee family with a history of rebellion and resilience and is now an aquaculturalist and a jack of many trades, including stone, metal, and leatherwork, as well as medieval combat (anyone for a spot of jousting?).
Krzysztof’s home, where he lives with his partner, is mostly self-sufficient thanks to his meticulous researching and execution of DIY projects.
This project-obsessed gentle giant is eager to flex his crafting skills, his understanding of fish behaviour as well as his recurve bow hunting abilities.
‘My strongest trait is going to be my stubbornness: I’m going to sit in the cold, I’m going to sit in the rain, I’m going to push through this. I’m going to wait until my loved one taps me on the shoulder and tells me I’ve won.’
Jack
Age: 55
Occupation: Tradesman & Wild Game Hunter
Home state: NSW
Jack is a Chilean-Aussie and father of two recently independent daughters, so he’s ready and excited to take on a big solo adventure and test his lifetime’s worth of skills.
A Chilean-Australian self-employed tradesman, Jack has a wide range of transferable tricks from his workcraft that he’s hoping to put to the test as he improvises and innovates out in the wild. Jack’s family moved to Australia when he was a child and he’s been hunting and fishing ever since, more recently alongside his German short-haired pointer, Lea.
Jack is keen on photography and videography so is looking forward to getting stuck into the documentation side of things, while not forgetting he’s on a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
‘I hunt and fish to feed my family. I have been asked if I’m afraid of being out in the bush alone with all the scary things out there… My answer? I am the scary thing.’
Tamika
Age: 51
Occupation: Off-Gridder & Former Police Officer
Home state: QLD
It seems Tamika has lived a dozen lives. She’s been living off-grid for the past decade utilising her 20 years of permaculture and herbal medicine practice, but before that, Tamika was a (deep breath);
- former Australian bowhunting champion
- police officer
- scuba diving instructor
- disability worker
- national parks ranger
- fly fishing rod maker
- farmer
- tattooist
She’s now a plant-based chef and author and yes, a vegetarian! That’s gonna have to change. In fact Tamika’s said that hunting and killing an animal that looks after its young will be her toughest test, both physically and emotionally.
‘The motivation to survive in the wilderness comes from a feeling I have every day. It’s the inspiration from nature. It’s a yearning to find out what’s around the corner… I’m hoping I can inspire other people to just love the earth as much as I do.’
Chace
Age: 27
Occupation: Defence Force Combat Engineer
Home state: QLD
Chace surveys and explores unknown environments on a daily basis as part of his role as a combat engineer in the military, giving him a tactical mind and the ability to pivot quickly.
Combined with his experiential skills gathered from outdoor adventures with his family and his capabilities as a big game hunter, Chace is confident he’ll be able to sustain himself.
As a combat engineer, exploring and surveying unknown environments for strategic assessment are all part of Chace’s regular daily activity, further contributing to his ability to think tactically and pivot quickly – critical skills for adapting to the foreign land he’s about to be dropped into. Chace is the youngest competitor, but has been hunting with a recurve bow from an early age.
‘Being Alone is a dream come true…I’ve literally been hunting my whole life and I’ve been outdoors since before I can remember.’
Suzan
Age: 54
Occupation: Wilderness Adventure Guide
Home state: VIC
Suzan has lived off-grid with her husband and two dogs for decades, cultivating a nature-based existence by harvesting the resources from the land she lives on.
Suzan’s skill set includes hunting and gathering, shelter-making, scavenging, and a deep knowledge of plants, and using this, she’s eager to explore and understand the limits of her connection to the land. Alongside these skills, Suzan is a wilderness adventure guide, a deep wilding facilitator and a novice filmmaker, having directed and featured in Suzy and the Simple Man; a documentary about our relationship with each other and nature.
Despite not having the physical strength of other competitors, Suzan is determined to prove that older women possess the life experience, wisdom, and patience to not only survive in the wild, but to thrive.
‘I want to showcase my 40-plus years of survival skills and show that an older woman can use wisdom and experience to compensate for declining physical strength.’
Mike
Age: 60
Occupation: Resilience Coach
Home state: NSW
At 60 years old, Mike is the oldest, but most experienced in life, of the competitors. This former Waratahs player and rugby union coach turned his later focus to outdoor resilience coaching and mental toughness programming; running training workshops for boys, men and elite sporting teams.
Mike is a father of three adult children and an avid deer hunter, living and fishing in a regional coastal town. Over the last 30 years, he’s taken a lot of time to immerse himself in nature and live sustainably off the land. He’s confident in his bow and arrow and fishing skills to sustain him.
To Mike, his greatest strength is resilience forged from experiencing life’s triumphs and traumas alongside a stubborn tenacity. To win Alone Australia would be an affirmation of what Mike does for a living and great way to make his kids proud.
‘I’m really confident I’ve got what it takes to win. The ability to handle pain and discomfort is my superpower. Testing myself and finding my limits is all part of resilience training and I live a life where I practice what I preach.’
Rick
Age: 58
Occupation: Survival Educator & Former SAS Soldier
Home state: QLD
Rick joined the military at 17 years old and later became an SAS soldier, spending eight years learning all types of extreme survival (including snow and ice mountain warfare in caves and blizzards).
A husband and father of two sons, Rick left the military to focus on his family and has since become a bushcraft survival educator. His survival school focuses on bringing together fathers and sons to learn and spend time together.
Rick also has a passion for ethnobotany – the connection between native plants and their Indigenous cultural uses. This fascination may have fed into his becoming an unlikely social media star, with a TikTok account amassing over 1.3M likes and 176,000 loyal followers, whom he affectionately refers to as ‘Bushtokkers’.
‘I have a goal of doing epic stuff in my life every year. I may have a few years under my belt, but when it comes to a commitment to keep pushing boundaries, I’m just getting started. This will be the ultimate opportunity to put experience and knowledge to the test!’
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