Pia Miranda, who appears as a 'champion' contestant in season 4, starred in Looking for Alibrandi (2000). The actor that played her father, Anthony LaPaglia, is the older brother of Survivor's host, Jonathan LaPaglia.
This is the first Australian series to use Ancient Voices, better known to Australians as the theme of the U.S. series Survivor (2000), as its theme.
The airing of this series on Network Ten makes Australian Survivor one of only a few programs of any genre to be seen on all three Australian commercial television networks, following Australian Survivor (2002) on Nine and Celebrity Survivor (2006) on Seven.
After the Seven Network decided not to renew Celebrity Survivor (2006), it appeared unlikely that a third season would ever be made, until in August 2013, the format's creator, Charlie Parsons, revealed in an interview with podcast and fan website Survivor Oz that the rights to produce the series had been licensed to an undisclosed production company, who believed that there was still an appetite for the programme and would approach Australian networks to commission a potential series. When Network Ten revealed at their up-fronts on 19 November 2015 that they had commissioned a revival of the series that would air in mid-late 2016, this company was revealed as EndemolShine Australia, who would produce the series in association with Castaway Television Productions.
The Samoan island of Upolu used as the location of this series had previously been used in four seasons of the U.S. edition of Survivor (2000) - Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, South Pacific and One World, the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-third and twenty-fourth seasons respectively.