Alone Australia captured the nation’s attention and Gina Chick became a household name. From the new location to the ten contestants, here’s everything you need to know about Alone Australia Season 2.

 

This article contains spoilers for Season 1 of Alone Australia.

Alone Australia Season 2 will land on our screens in 2024 along with a companion podcast hosted by none other than Gina Chick herself.

Psst! The next season is almost here – we’ve got everything you need to know about Alone Australia Season 3.

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Interview With Alone Australia Season 2 Winner

We Are Explorers Managing Director & Publisher, Tim Ashelford, sat down with the winner of Alone Australia Season 2 the day after the finale premiered to chat all things survival, suffering, and success in the New Zealand wilderness.

Listen Now: We Chatted With the Winner of Alone Australia Season 2

Alone Australia Season 2 Finale

The Alone Australia Season 2 Finale will air on SBS and SBS on Demand on Wednesday 29th of May 2024 at 7:30pm AEST.

Alone Australia Season 2 Reunion

SBS has just announced that Alone super-fan and comedian, Hamish Blake, will host the Alone Australia Season 2 Reunion special, to be broadcast directly after the season finale on May 29th 2024.

Read more: Hamish Blake Will Host the Alone Australia Season 2 Reunion

Alone Australia Season 2 Recaps

Missed an episode of Alone Australia Season 2 and don’t have time to catch up? Or maybe you just want to see if other people were thinking the same thing you were while watching people on the brink of tapping out. Tim’s got you!

Every Thursday we drop a recap of the latest Alone Australia Season 2 episode – and yes, there will be spoilers!

Catch up on what’s happened on the show so far and giggle at Tim’s hot takes on all things outdoor survival.

Alone Australia Season 2 Location

The location for Alone Australia Season 2 will be the Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa, also known as the South Island of New Zealand. So, not really Australia anymore. It hasn’t been confirmed, but with the location of the lake on the map, the terrain, and a contestant saying it’s 200m above sea level, it’s likely that the show was filmed at Lake Manapouri and the surrounding area bordering Fiordland National Park. 7,000mm of rain falls here every year and temperatures can reach -5 degrees celsius.

The format however, remains unchanged: another ten contestants will compete to be the last to survive. In the most extreme mountainous terrain, they’ll have to deal with exposure, hunger, and isolation for a prize of $250,000.

Head of Unscripted Programs at SBS, Joseph Maxwell told The Guardian the new setting ‘enabled whole new strategies’ that weren’t seen in season 1 of the show. Tasmania had strict hunting regulations that restricted what the contestants could do to enable their survival.

Read more: Interview With Riima Daher, Executive Producer of Alone Australia Season 2

‘By choosing New Zealand we’re able to introduce bows and arrows, which brings in whole new strategies and skills sets,’ Joseph says.

Allowing hunting in season 2 also allows First Nations stories to be told according to Joseph, ‘We’re on Māori land now and are able to tell those stories’. This will bring a different dynamic to season 2 which should be interesting for fans.

Joseph goes on to say they also deliberately chose a place that is very cold and wet, and contestants can expect snow and freezing winds.

Part of an international franchise, Alone Australia Season 1 became the breakout hit of the year. It turned out to be the most successful show SBS has ever commissioned with more than one million viewers each episode.

The inclusion of active hunting and the stunning environment is sure to make for an impressive series, but some fans are sure to be disappointed that Season 2 won’t be showcasing the unique challenges of the Australian environment.

 

Alone Australia Season 1 was set in a harsh environment where food was very scarce

Alone Australia Season 2 Trailer

SBS recently dropped a new trailer for Alone Australia Season 2. It’s the first time we’ve seen footage of the contestants in their solo locations, with some using a bow and arrow to hunt, while others are crying and in physical pain.

SBS has taken on feedback that viewers are keen to see more active hunting in Alone Australia Season 2, something that was particularly difficult in Season 1 due to poor skill, luck, and a lack of animals.

The trailer also highlights that all contestants will be Australians, putting to rest ideas that any of the contestants will be Māori or New Zealanders.

 

Alone Australia Season 2 Release Date

Alone Australia Season 2 will premiere on Wednesday 27th of March at 7:30pm on SBS and SBS On Demand.

Episodes will be released each week on Wednesdays on both platforms.

Read more: Alone Australia: All About Season 1

Where to Watch Alone Australia Season 2

Alone Australia will be exclusively available to watch on the SBS channel and online at SBS On Demand.

The show will be available with subtitles in five languages including Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean. There’ll also be audio descriptions for blind or vision-impaired audiences available.

Alone Australia Season 2 Cast

The cast for Alone Australia Season 2 has been announced! There are seven men and three women competing in the wilds of New Zealand’s South Island this year. Read up on all of the competitors so you know who to place your bets on!

Watch the cast videos: Alone Australia Season 2 Cast

1. 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.

He’s an elite personal trainer and former model who grew up in Sweden, honing his outdoor and fishing skills (and practising surviving in the cold!).

2. 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. Chace is the youngest competitor but has been hunting with a recurve bow from an early age.

3. 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.

He’s a self-employed tradesman with a host of handy skills he’s planning on transferring to the bush. 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 also keen on photography and videography.

4. 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.

5. Krzysztof

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 research and execution of DIY projects. He has a comprehensive knowledge of fish behaviour and recurve bow hunting abilities, all of which he’s keen to flex during his time on the South Island.

6. 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 preserving culture and artefacts and documenting 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.

7. 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. A former Waratahs player and rugby union coach, Mike now runs outdoor resilience 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.

8. 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. Rick also has a passion for ethnobotany – the connection between native plants and their Indigenous cultural uses – which has helped him become a bit of a TikTok star, with a following of 176,000 loyal fans (who he calls ‘Bushtokkers’).

9. 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.

10. 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, an author, and yes, a vegetarian! That’s gonna have to change.

 

Who do you think has the grit and wit to survive by themselves and outlast the rest? Let us know in the comments!

Alone Australia Season 2 Items List

Each contestant on Alone Australia is allowed to choose ten items from a longer list of gear and equipment to take with them into the bush. This is in addition to safety, emergency, and camera gear that each contestant is required to take.

The Alone Australia Season 2 gear list is much the same as the previous year, with a few added extras, including bow and arrows – which is sure to step the competition up a notch.

Alone Australia Season 2 Prize

The last standing Alone Australia contestant, who endures the longest time out in the bush alone, will win $250,000.

Alone Australia Season 2 Podcast

Gina Chick quickly became a fan favourite during Alone Australia Season 1 due to her authentic personality along with her incredible knowledge and skill in the wilderness.

Gina will return as host of the companion recap podcast for Alone Australia Season 2. For those who love Gina, you’ll also be excited to hear she’ll be co-hosting Season 2 of Great Australian Walks alongside Julia Zemiro and Susie Youssef.

Alone Cologne

I can’t say this was on our bingo card for 2024, but in the lead up to the Alone Australia Season 2 premiere, SBS has released * checks notes * a foul-smelling cologne.

Now you too can smell like you’ve spent weeks on end in the bush without a shower.

Read more: Introducing Alone Cologne: The Fragrance No One Asked For

 

Feature image thanks to SBS Australia

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