The ninth series of the Australian cooking game show ''

MasterChef Australia ''MasterChef Australia'' is an Australian competitive cooking reality show based on the original British ''MasterChef (British TV series), MasterChef''. It is produced by Endemol Shine Australia and screens on Network 10. Restaurateur and ch ...

'' premiered on 1 May 2017 on

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. Judges

Gary Mehigan Gary Mehigan (born 12 February 1967) is an English-Australian chef and restaurateur. Mehigan was one of the original judges of the Network 10 series ''MasterChef Australia''. Career Chef Mehigan trained at The Connaught (hotel), The Connau ...

George Calombaris George Dimitrios Calombaris (; born 4 October 1978) is a Greek Australian chef and restaurateur and television personality. Calombaris was one of the judges of the Network 10 series ''MasterChef Australia'' from 2009 to 2019. Prior to his role ...

and

Matt Preston Matt Preston (born 21 July 1961) is an English-Australian food critic, writer, food journalist, television and radio presenter. Preston has a weekly national food column that appears in NewsCorp's metro newspapers. He is also a senior editor ...

from the previous series returned. This series was won by

Diana Chan Diana Chan (born 20 December 1988) is a Malaysian-born Australian cook. She is the winner of ''MasterChef Australia'' for 2017, having defeated Ben Ungermann by one point in the grand finale. Early life Chan was born in Setiawan, Perak and ...

in the grand finale against Ben Ungermann, on 24 July 2017.

Changes

This series introduced the "Power Pin" in the seventh week. The pin granted the wearer an extra 15 minutes of cooking time in any one challenge until the finals.

Contestants

Top 24

The Top 24 contestants were announced on 1–3 May 2017. Chosen contestant Josh Clearihan was a previous auditionee from the eighth series who failed to reach the auditions when he was hospitalized with brain damage after a run-in with a car thief. The series featured other previous auditionees: Pia Gava, Benita Orwell and Eloise Praino. Future appearances *

appeared in

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at the auditions to support the Top 50. While Ben Ungermann, Karlie Verkerk, Tamara Griffin, Arum Nixon, Sarah Tiong, Eliza Wilson, Eloise Praino, Callan Smith, Sam Goodwin, Michelle Lukman & Bryce Zhu appeared at the Semi Final service challenge as guests. * Ben was a guest judge of

MasterChef Indonesia (season 5) ''MasterChef Indonesia'' (abbreviated as MCI) is an Indonesian competitive cooking reality show based on the original British series of the same name, open to amateur and home chefs. Produced by Endemol Shine Group, it debuted on 1 May 2011 on ...

. * Ben & Sarah appeared on

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. Ben withdrew from the competition on 18 May 2020, finishing 16th and Sarah was eliminated on 9 June 2020, finishing 10th. *

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, Eliza & Sam appeared on

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as guests for the 1st service challenge.

Guest Chefs

Elimination chart

Episodes and ratings

; Colour key: : – Highest rating during the series : – Lowest rating during the series

References

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