Xavier Austin is a fictional character from the Australian Channel Seven soap opera Home and Away, played by David Jones-Roberts.

[2] Whilst surfing his agent told him he had the role over a pay-phone and Jones-Roberts adds: "I got all excited and started jumping around.

He has a deep love and incredible patience with Brendan (Kain O'Keeffe) who is twenty, but with a mental capacity of a four year old.

"[3] Xavier was seen yearning for a care-free life and started taking recreational drugs and partying, but they add that later he "matured into a caring and thoughtful young man.

[6] Speaking of Xavier's attitude Breeds states: "He's a challenge, she had to work for him and there is something mysterious and naughty about him but deep down she knows he is loyal and decent.

However, there are a few obstacles she encounters along the way so it's really a question of whether he's going to man up..."[7] In January 2012, a writer for TV Week observed that with sparks already flying between Xavier and Sasha Bezmel (Demi Harman), it looked like they would become Home and Away's newest couple over the coming months.

[5] When an upset Sasha is taunted by some Summer Bay High students in the Diner, Xavier sticks up for her because he feels it is the right thing to do.

"[8] Following Sonia Todd's departure from Home and Away in 2013, Jones-Roberts returned to film funeral scenes for her character and Xavier's mother, Gina.

Xavier returns for Jack's funeral, along with his mother Gina (Sonia Todd) and brother Hugo (Bernard Curry).

He eventually dumps Freya for Ruby, but she turns up and wins him back and then forces him to sell drugs at the school.

Ruby then borrows money from Roman Harris (Conrad Coleby), she then gives it to Freya to leave for good, which she does.

Xavier tries to protect Brendan but Gina hands him in to the police but Roman refuses to press charges.

Ruby goes through some more hard times and Nicole Franklin (Tessa James) convinces her to end things with Xavier.

[10] He gives her a false alibi for the night her real father Grant Bledcoe (Clayton Watson) was murdered.

Xavier becomes annoyed at Gina for dating John Palmer (Shane Withington) and emotionally blackmails her to keep her distance from him.

They later start a romance which is complicated when her brother Dean (Rick Donald) is revealed to be Bianca Scott's (Lisa Gormley) rapist.

Xavier goes to staty with her, but he finds working on the farm hard and clashes with Kelly's mother Rhonda (May Lloyd).

Xavier grows concerned for Sasha Bezmel after he learns her boyfriend Stu Henderson (Brenton Thwaites) has been hitting her.

The next time he returns from the police academy, Xavier and Sasha cook for John and Gina to help mend the rift between them.

Xavier becomes suspicious of Jett James (Will McDonald) when Colleen Smart's (Lyn Collingwood) caravan is broken into and her money is stolen.

Xavier illegally looks the man up on the COP database and learns he is Richard Bozic (Jadek Ronak).

Xavier tells Gina and John that he is going to move to Goulburn permanently, to attend the academy, and he leaves Summer Bay.

"[11] Michael Idato of The Sydney Morning Herald said as that Xavier's one of storylines was a "little rickety" because Jones-Roberts' delivery of his lines, adding he had the "tilt of the head and pout of the lip that we remember so well from a certain Fast Forward sketch.