The winner of the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under was Kita Mean, with Art Simone, Karen from Finance and Scarlet Adams as runners-up.

Initially announced as a solely Australian version in 2019,[1] production was moved to New Zealand due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.

[3] Australian comedian Rhys Nicholson was confirmed to join RuPaul and Michelle Visage as a judge.

[4] They officially announced the ten contestants at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras on 6 March 2021.

[5] The three New Zealand-based queens were on House of Drag, with Anita Wigl'it and Kita Mean as judges and Elektra Shock as the runner-up on season 2.

Coco Jumbo and Elektra Shock lip-sync to "Shake Your Groove Thing" by Peaches & Herb.

For this week's main challenge, the queens create an outfit made from items found in the local op shop.

For the final challenge of the season, the queens write, record and perform verses to RuPaul's song "I'm A Winner, Baby" On the runway, category is Best Drag.

It is announced that Kita Mean is the winner, leaving Art Simone, Karen from Finance and Scarlet Adams as the runners-up.

Following the cast reveal, video footage and images surfaced of Scarlet Adams "wearing a shirt with the Aboriginal flag, with dark tanned skin and two teeth blacked out".

Other images feature Adams in blackface as an African American woman and playing Asian stereotypes by wearing a sari as part of a Bollywood character.

Adams apologised via social media in 2020 before being revealed as a cast member and later released a new apology in March 2021.

I’m really sorry to you and to everyone that I have hurt.”[16] Another contestant, Karen from Finance, was also reported to be involved in racial insensitivity after photos emerged showing a tattoo of a golliwog.

Karen from Finance addressed the controversy on their social media by saying "I made the uninformed, ignorant and regrettable decision to have one of these dolls tattooed.

[17][18] Etcetera Etcetera's performance as Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton in the Snatch Game (episode 2) draw widespread condemnation, as her impersonation heavily mocked the death of Chamberlain's baby daughter, accompanied with a bloodstained dingo puppet, which was criticised as being cruel, offensive and insensitive considering how Chamberlain-Creighton was wrongfully convicted for her daughter's death.

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