Cloncurry in north-west Queensland is where the ultimate battle between Brains and Brawn begins. As soon as the castaways hit the red dirt, it's every man for themselves to win the first reward challenge.

该季本应在2020年9月首映，但由于新冠病毒因素，世界范围的旅行限制，斐济对非公民关闭了边境，最终推迟在2021年春季，制作被搁置了整整一年。本季于2021年9月22日在美国哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）和加拿大环球电视台（Global）首映。与往季不同，通常39天的赛制被缩短到26天。

The ninth season of Australian Survivor, also known as Australian Survivor: Blood V Water, is an upcoming Australian television series based on the international reality game show franchise Survivor, set to air in February 2022. In this season, based on the twenty-seventh and twenty-ninth American series and carrying the same sub-title, new and returning players and their loved ones will be competing against each other.
The season was filmed in Charters Towers, Queensland, and it will be the third season filmed in Australia, second consecutively due to the COVID-19 pandemic's impact of Australian borders which have been closed since March 2020.

2023年2月21日，哥伦比亚广播公司续订《幸存者》第四十五季。本季将是自新冠疫情爆发以来的第五季播出，将继续遵守第41季引入的严格安全协议，因此，本季将继续维持26天的游戏时间，有18名参赛者分成三个部落。据透露，在上一季中被医疗后送走的参赛者Bruce Perreault将在第四十五季回归。

Australian Survivor is a television series based on the popular reality show "Survivor". Australian Survivor sees 24 tough and tenacious people marooned on a tropical island with little more than the clothes on their backs and the drive to be the sole survivor.