Who Won Alone Australia Season 3? Shay Williamson's Win, Explained

Spoiler note: this covers who won Alone Australia season 3.

Shay Williamson won season 3 of Alone Australia, surviving 76 days in the West Coast Range of lutruwita/Tasmania to take the $250,000 AUD prize. A 30-year-old professional possum trapper from Whakatane, New Zealand, he outlasted nine other contestants across the season's 12 episodes, the longest completed run in Alone Australia's history to that point, per our season 3 page.

How the win happened

Williamson's run wasn't built around one big food source. He sustained himself mainly on eels, fish, plants, and worms, a low-glamour but steady diet that kept him going far longer than most of the field. The turning point came around day 67, when he managed to catch a pademelon (a small wallaby-like marsupial native to Tasmania), a rare protein windfall late in the game that helped carry him through the run's final stretch.

Medical staff did raise concerns about his weight loss as the season wore on, but he was cleared to continue each time. His win ultimately came the way most close Alone finishes do: runner-up Murray "Muzza" James, who had pushed him to 73 days, was medically evacuated for low blood pressure shortly after, at which point Williamson was declared the winner. His wife Abby surprised him at his campsite to deliver the news in person, a moment that's become one of the more emotional finale reveals in the franchise. For more on how the show's medical-evacuation process actually works, our alone-rules page breaks it down.

What makes this season notable in the show's history is just how close the top three finished. James lasted 73 days and third-place Corinne Ooms lasted 70, meaning the top three contestants were separated by only six days after more than two months alone. That's an unusually tight finish for a franchise where winning margins are often measured in weeks, not days.

Key gear

Full per-item gear data for season 3 hasn't been independently sourced yet. SBS's own gear coverage for this season documented only each contestant's top 3 picks rather than a complete 10-item breakdown, so we don't have a verified full loadout for Williamson the way we do for some other winners. What is confirmed is the food strategy behind his win: heavy reliance on aquatic protein (eels and fish) and foraged plants over the trapping-and-hunting approach that defines several other seasons. That fits his background as a professional trapper, someone whose pre-show skill set was built around patient, low-intervention food gathering rather than a single dramatic kill.

Season snapshot

Placement	Contestant	Days lasted
1st (winner)	Shay Williamson	76
2nd	Murray "Muzza" James	73
3rd	Corinne Ooms	70

Williamson's 76 days stood as the longest completed run in Alone Australia at the time and remains one of the longest in the franchise's history when measured against the US show's own seasons.

The season ran 12 episodes from March to June 2025, one more episode than either of the first two Alone Australia seasons, which tracks with it also producing the franchise's longest winning run to date. Filming location matters here too: unlike season 2, which was shot in New Zealand despite the Australian branding, season 3 returned to Tasmania, in the West Coast Range rather than the South West wilderness used for season 1.

For his full contestant page, the season bio and confirmed details are there in full. If you want to know what he's done since the win, where Shay Williamson is now covers his life post-show, and where to watch the season has streaming details if you want to see the run for yourself.