Alone Australia Season 2 Cast Has Been Announced! Who’s Your Pick of the Pack?

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.

We’ve been waiting with bated breath for a sliver of info about the upcoming season of Alone Australia. We already know, that despite it being Alone AUSTRALIA, the cast is being dropped on the South Island of New Zealand, which will open up the rules to allow for some more big game hunting!

Alone Australia S2 Cast Revealed

And now we know exactly what that cast looks like. Introducing the ten competitors of Alone Australia Season 2. Let’s get to know the people we’ll soon be yelling and rolling our eyes at from the couch, shall we? 

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 practicing surviving in the cold!).

‘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…’

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.

Chase 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.’

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 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.’

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.

Living in regional NSW with his wife and doggos, Jason has lived all around the country, from the deserts of the Northern Territory to the alpine highlands of Tassie.

‘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.’

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 researching 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.

‘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.’

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, 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.

Although Leanne has plenty of experience living in the dry and red dirt bush, the damp and cold rainforest of Aotearoa will be a huge challenge.

‘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.’

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.

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.’

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. 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 – which has helped him become a bit of a TikTok star, with a following of 176,000 loyal fans (who he calls ‘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!’

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. She even directed and featured in her own film, Suzy and the Simple Man, a doco about our relationship with nature and each other.

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.’

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 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.’

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