Australian Survivor season 5

The season premiered on 1 August 2018,[1] and concluded on 9 October 2018, where Shane Gould was named the winner over Sharn Coombes in a 5–4 vote, winning the grand prize of A$500,000 and title of Sole Survivor.

Moana Hope, Zach Kozyrski, Lydia Lassila, Mat Rogers, Shonee Fairfax, Sharn Coombes and Shane Gould competed in Australian Survivor: All Stars.

The merge occurred with 12 players left; though most of the Champions wanted to pick off the rest of the Contenders, Mat and Shane were threatened by Lydia's challenge prowess and blindsided her before Robbie was eliminated.

Despite being the more strategically and physically dominant of the two, Sharn was criticized for being unlikeable and preaching loyalty despite playing both sides and failing to save her closest ally Mat.

She won the votes from the female jurors Fenella, Monika and Shonee, plus Mat and Brian to narrowly win the title of Sole Survivor.

During Tribal, Matt begins to go on the offensive and attacks Steve for searching for the idol, accuses the women of not playing the game at all, and believes that Zach is the leader of a bromance alliance with the men on the tribe.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Champions are concerned that Russell is starting to cause friction in camp and people believe he is playing the game just like he does in the US and they want him voted out.

Later, Moana, Lydia, Monika, Shane and Sharn gather to discuss Russell's antics during the day, noting that he's trying to stir the pot like always.

At Tribal Council, Russell openly wears his idol, stating he knew he was a huge target coming into the game and he is trying to survive another night.

At Tribal Council, the tribe discusses how to keep itself stronger in the challenges moving forward and both Jackie and Damian reveal that they are vulnerable for the vote tonight.

In order to solidify her alliance with Mat, Moana reveals to him that she found the Hidden Immunity Idol and actually gives it to him to hold for her as a sign of trust.

Anita, Shonee, and Fenella are concerned that Zach, Robbie, Benji, and Steve think they're running the show and want to eliminate the three of them because they are weakest.

However, Zach, Benji, and Robbie later reveal to the others that the plan is really to vote out Paige because they find her to be the weakest on the tribe and they feel she is playing both sides.

Particularly, the tribe gets to reflect on Shane's accomplishments as an Olympic Gold Swimmer and Mat's relationship with his autistic son and his charity that he founded to help other families.

When the Contenders return to camp, they unanimously agree that Jenna has to leave because she can't contribute a hundred percent with her hurt ankle.

Jenna has mixed feelings about her position in the game because she knows that she can't run or swim, but she can do puzzles and she's not ready to give up this chance at playing Survivor.

However, Sharn is determined to continue building her story and hopes to utilize her lawyer skills to get to the end and make an impassioned speech to the Jury.

When the votes are cast, it is revealed that the two alliances of Zach, Benji, Robbie and Anita, Shonee, Fenella have joined forces to blindside Tegan.

Tegan tells Heath about what she learned from Anita about Benji lying to the women and both believe they need to start playing aggressive if they want to stay in the game.

In order to build trust with Shonee, Benji decides to share with her that he is not a graphic designer, but he actually runs a million dollar company, he doesn't need the money, and tells her that he just hopes to make the Final 6.

Benji remarks that it's almost impossible to shake the reputation of being a liar in the game, but he agrees with the consensus and he states that he has ninety-five percent confidence that the promises he has made tonight will be kept.

Lydia is hoping to prove herself to her new tribe by performing well in the challenges and approaches Robbie and Benji about an alliance to protect the strong physical threats at the merge so the less athletic cannot band together to vote them out.

Jackie decides to start planting seeds in Tegan and lies to her stating that the tribe discussed throwing a challenge to get rid of her and Shonee to keep the Champions numbers strong at the merge.

At Tribal, the tribe discusses how the swap has affected them physically as they lost some good competitors and how Tegan and Shonee are feeling like they are on the bottom.

However, Heath and Fenella are angry that Benji and Robbie would vote Tegan out and find this move to be selfish and a huge mistake.

Fenella attempts to see if the women would work with her and Heath to go girls strong to the end and try to convince them that Benji and Robbie would turn on them if it benefited their game.

Back at Contenders, Benji and Robbie propose to Sharn, Lydia, and Monika that they vote Heath out as he will be a physical threat at the merge.

At Tribal, Mat discusses the fact that a strong alliance exists on the tribe, but that talking too much or giving away information can make people a target.

Back at camp, Brian, Monika, Shonee, and Fenella agree to split the votes between Sharn and Shane to ensure one of them goes in case an idol is played.

Notes Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).