Alone Australia Season 3 – Everything You Need to Know

Alone Australia Season 3 will hit Aussie screens on Wednesday 26th of March, 2025! The gear list has just been revealed and the contestants are self-proclaimed ‘batshit crazy’.

After jumping across the pond for its second season, in 2025 Alone Australia will see the SBS smash-hit reality show return to Aussie shores. This time around, the ten contestants will be dropped into the remote wilderness of Tasmania’s West Coast Ranges, all vying for the grand prize of $250,000.

SBS has revealed that Season 3 is ‘wilder, tougher, and more extreme than ever’ and has touted it as ‘a season of firsts’.

Photo by Narelle Portanier

For the first time in Alone Australia history, there’ll be an equal amount of men and women competing (five of each), while one person also nabs the title of oldest Alone Australia contestant in the series’ history. SBS has also promised ‘first-of-a-kind hunting, fishing and trapping skills’ and that ‘shelter builds and bushcraft [will] be redefined to remarkable new extremes’.

‘The resilience of the 10 participants is extraordinary. Their unfiltered, raw stories are filled with surprise, insight and drama. Alone Australia S3 is gripping TV’, said Joseph Maxwell, SBS Head of Unscripted.

Big claims! We can’t wait to see if they hold up. But first, let’s watch the official trailer!

Alone Australia Season 3 Finale and Reunion

So what the heck has happened with the last few episodes of Alone? Turns out, the State of Origin ruined the flow, so SBS skipped a week of viewing and opted for an absolute BUMPER finale week.

The final two episodes of Alone Australia Season 3 will air on SBS and SBS on Demand on Wednesday 4th of June from 7:30pm-9:30pm. For those watching on the laptop screen, an extra special reunion episode will follow the final episodes at 9:30pm on Wednesday 4th of June. The Reunion will be screened on the SBS channel the following Wednesday 11th of June at 7:30pm.

The Reunion episode will see the full cast reunited to reveal more behind-the-scenes footage than ever before, give a deep dive of all ten shelters, and provide insight into what it’s like to reintegrate back into regular life after Alone.

You can watch the full series of Alone Australia Season 3 on SBS on Demand any time you like.

Alone Australia Season 3 Recaps

Tim’s been recapping Alone Australia 2025 episodes and dropping predictions of what will happen and who the winner will be! Read up on what’s happened before the final two episodes and let us know who you think will take the crown!

• Alone Australia Season 3 Episode 1 & 2 Predictions
• What We Learnt From Alone Australia S3 Episode 1
• What We Learnt From Alone Australia S4 Episode 2
• Alone Australia Season 3 Episode 5 Recap
• Alone Australia Season 3 Episode 6 Recap – Ice Ice Baby
• Alone Australia Season 3 Updated Winner Predictions
• Alone Australia Season 3 Episode 9 Recap – Bush Enemas For All
• Alone Australia Season 3 Episode 10 Recap – The Floodening

Alone Australia Gear List Revealed

Each contestant is allowed to select ten items of gear from the below list to bring with them into the wilderness. The choices are between:

• Adze
• Axe with Mask
• Bank line
• Bar of Soap
• Biodegradable Tube of Toothpaste
• Bivi Bag
• Block of salt
• Carabiner
• Climbing Rope
• Comb
• Cooking Pot
• Face Washer
• Ferro Rod Set
• Fishing Line & Hooks
• Food ration
• Foraging Bag
• Frying Pan
• Hammock
• Hatchet/ Small Axe
• Hunting Knife
• LED Flashlight
• Machete
• Multi Tool
• Paracord
• Pocket Knife
• Roll Dental Floss
• Roll of wire
• Roll Tape
• Saw
• Scotch Eyed Auger
• Sharpening Stone
• Sleeping Bag
• Sleeping Bag Liner
• Small Bowl
• Small Sewing Kit
• Small Shovel
• Small Towel
• Spoon
• Tarp
• Water Bottle

Alone Australia Season 3 Contestants

For the first time in Alone Australia history, an equal number of women and men will be competing against each other. Let’s meet them!

Ben

Age: 38
Home State: South Australia
Profession: English Teacher

Ben is many things to many people – a husband and father, a Christian, an English teacher, an AFL player, and a bush poet.

He knows his local bushlands in Outback South Aus well and is versed in deadfall and live trapping techniques, as well as foraging.

‘I am just as comfortable quoting Shakespeare as I am gutting a rabbit.’

Ceilidh

Age: 34
Home State: Queensland
Profession: Disability Services Officer

Ceilidh currently lives and works on the Sunny Coast, but escapes to the bush as often as possible.

Ceilidh has been deaf since birth, but that hasn’t slowed her down – she’s a certified carpenter, a building designer, and a national BMX champ.

Her father instilled a love of fishing in her from an early age and she’s passionate about foraging. But hunting and trapping, not so much.

‘If there’s water, there’s life; put me near a body of water and I’ll find you something in it.’

Corinne

Age: 38
Home State: Tasmania
Profession: Food Safety Consultant

Although she was raised in the Scottish highlands, Corinne now has a home advantage, as she already lives on bushland in Tassie’s south.

With an obsession for foraging that’s led her to start a bushfoods business, this is Corinne’s survival forte. Despite her proven success to catch an animal and butcher a carcass, she hasn’t yet brought herself to do the actual killing.

‘I think I’ll do okay. I’m stoic, stubborn and have a little bit of that masochism that goes a long way in a survival situation.’

Eva

Age: 31
Home State: NSW
Profession: Rewilding Facilitator

For the past six years, Eva’s lived mostly outdoors, including at her off-grid cabin in the NSW hinterland and through her outdoor education school. But her lifestyle before that couldn’t have been more different – a big city life with a youthful party culture. Eva’s deep connection to nature has drastically changed her life.

Now she lives a self-sufficient lifestyle in a tight-knit community. She forages daily and eats bugs like cicadas, witchetty grubs, moths, and ants. However, she’s yet to hunt bigger game for herself.

‘This is not a weekend hobby for me, it’s a lifestyle.’

Karla

Age: 35
Home State: Queensland
Profession: Expedition Leader

Karla has travelled, worked, and up-skilled across the world – and worn many hats while doing it! She’s been a wildlife zookeeper, a Kimberley fishing guide, a member of the Army Reserves, and a commerical helicopter pilot.

Her skills include animal tracking, big game hunting, trapping, fishing, and foraging. Karla thrives in solitude, as she’s travelled solo and worked remotely.

‘I want to find out if I really know my shit, or if I’m full of it!’

Matt

Age: 31
Home State: Western Australia
Profession: Indigenous Youth Worker

Matt is a proud Yanyuwa, Waanyi/Garawa man who lives in Yawurr/Broome with his family where he nourishes his deep connection to culture and country.

You might recognise him from the 17 NRL games he played for the Canberra Raiders and NZ Warriors, but he hung up the footy boots to work with community and First Nations youth.

Matt has plenty of traditional practices and hunting methods under his belt and is also proficient with all manner of bows, rifles, and traps.

‘Growing up, I didn’t watch ‘Bob the Builder’, I’d be out trying to hunt grandpa’s rabbits. I’ve literally been hunting my whole life and I’ve been outdoors since before I can remember.’

Muzza

Age: 63
Home State: Victoria
Profession: Bushman

Muzza is the oldest competitor ever on Alone Australia – but with his storied past, he’s got decades more experience than most other participants.

Muzza has been a farmer, FIFO worker in the Pilbara, a tuna fisherman, gold hunter, roo shooter, and pump mechanic. He’s now a professional bushman (and quite gifted at spinning a yarn).

With lifelong skills in fishing, hunting, tracking, trapping, bushcraft, and building, Muzza is primed for the challenge.

‘I want to be the inspiration for my age group to get off their arses and challenge themselves. People hit their 60s and think they’re old – bullshit!’

Shay

Age: 30
Home State: New Zealand!
Profession: Professional Trapper

Hailing from New Zealand’s North Island, Shay is the only international participant in the bunch – will his experience in the cold help, or could his unfamiliarity with the Aussie bush hinder him?

Shay has been trapping possums since 16 and spends much of his time hunting meat and fur for his family. He’s now a master tracker and trapper. Shay also shares his knowledge of New Zealand’s flora, fauna, and bush food on YouTube.

‘Tapping out is not an option… It might sound crazy, but I’m going to be there for 300 days.’

Tom

Age: 30
Home State: NSW
Profession: Ecologist

Tom and his family live a self-sufficient lifestyle. He’s a trained ecologist, giving him extensive plant and insect knowledge.

Tom was born without his right hand due to symbrachydactyly, but that hasn’t stopped him from becoming an expert trapper and forager and honing fishing techniques across various water types. It’s also given him the ability to adapt and be resilient.

‘I don’t think you go into something like this without being a little unhinged. In the wild parts of Tasmania, it’s cold, it’s rugged, it’s unforgiving. All 10 of us are batshit crazy.’

Yonke

Age: 52
Home State: Victoria
Profession: Farmer & Permaculturalist

Yonke is a single mother raising three kids on a permaculture farm in rural Victoria, while running rewilding workshops on the side.

Her young life took her exploring across the world as she studied forestry in the Netherlands and Brazil, living in the forest for three months. This experience gave her deep knowledge and connection to trees, meaning she finds cutting down a tree more distressing than killing an animal.

Yonke is a passionate fisher, a skilled forager, and incredibly resourceful thanks to her sustainability focused lifestyle.

‘I’ve spent my life looking at how humans connect with the wild world, through anthropology, ethnobotany, forestry and this is the next of level of it all – I just want to know what it feels like to completely rely on nature to sustain myself.’

Alone Australia 2025 FAQs

When is the Alone Australia Season 3 release date?

The third season of Alone Australia will premiere on Wednesday 26th of March, 2025 at 7:30pm, with a double episode! This season will feature 12 episodes. 

Where can I watch Alone Australia? 

Once season 3 begins airing, it’ll be available to watch on the SBS channel and SBS on Demand. 

What was the Alone Australia Season 3 location? 

SBS has announced that Season 3 will be set and filmed back in lutruwita/Tasmania, this time within the rugged West Coast Ranges, some of the state’s most unforgiving terrain. The range is located not far from the West Coast mining town of Queenstown, and directly west of Lake St Clair.

The mountain range includes peaks like Mt Murchison, Mt Owen, and Mt Tyndall – in fact the whole Tyndall Range lies within the West Coast Range. 

Mt Tyndall | Photo by Christine Zelezny

What season was Alone Australia Season 3 filmed in? 

According to SBS, filming for the third season of Alone Australia happened in winter! In Tassie no less. Brrrr! Crikey, the thought is almost too much to bear for this Top End gal. 

How many contestants are on Alone Australia 2025? 

SBS has revealed that ten contestants will be competing. 

How much money does the winner of Alone Australia win? 

The prize money for the Alone Australia winner is $250,000. Personally, I’ve always said that’s not near enough cash considering what they endure (I could win 4x that much by answering some questions in the comfort of a TV studio, although I’d have to talk to Eddie McGuire so it is a toss-up).

What happens on Alone Australia? 

We don’t know much yet, but SBS has mentioned that ‘the ten participants face extreme flooding, an abundance of wildlife, and deep personal revelations. The harsh conditions ignite never-before-seen innovation and survival skills, forcing the human spirit to its very limit’. 

Maybe we’ll finally see someone eat something! 

Yummy

When the bloody hell will Alone Australia be set somewhere that’s not cold? 

Something I’ve been asking for a few years now! We get it, it’s cold, it’s wet, it sucks. We wanna see something different, some new complications. Put them in the tropics and make them fight off crocs and mosquito-borne diseases – I’d watch that!

Why did Alone Australia move back to Australia? 

Now this is something I want answers to as well. Maybe a better question is, why did it move to New Zealand in the first place? (And why did it feel like a bit of a flop?)

Sure the snow-capped peaks are pretty in New Zealand, but where’s the existential threat of death?

Will Tim be writing episode recaps during Alone Australia Season 3? 

CONFIRMED

How many seasons of Alone Australia are there?

We’ve seen two seasons so far, with the third coming up soon! 

Where can I catch up on Alone Australia Season 2? 

Haven’t you heard? We’re famous on the internet for providing thought-provoking hot takes and witty side notes on every single episode of Alone Australia, Seasons 1 and 2! So if you cbf watching the full series, hit up our recaps for the (hilarious) CliffNotes. 

Alone Australia Season 2 Recaps

Will there be an Alone Australia Season 4? 

We think so! SBS has already started casting for Alone Australia Season 4, so another season sounds promising. 

Read More About Season 2 of Alone Australia

• We Chatted With The Winner of Alone Australia Season 2
• The Alone Australia Season 2 Gear List Has Dropped – What Would You Take Into the Wild?
• ‘She’s A Dominatrix, This One’ – Interview with Riima Daher, Executive Producer of Alone Australia Season 2
• How to Host an Alone Australia Viewing Party That’ll Have Your Mates Questioning Your Sanity

Feature photo by Narelle Portanier