Darren McMullen was announced as the host of the program in January 2012.[10][11]Faustina Agolley was announced as the social media correspondent during the live shows in May 2012.[12]
Coach had completed their team and were therefore excluded from the ability to select artist
Filming for the blind auditions stage of the competition began on 19 February 2012 at Fox Studios in Sydney,[13][14] with 121 artists featured in this phase of the selection process.[15] The first day of filming resulted in hundreds of audience members being turned away from the studio due to overbooking of the event by an external booking agent.[14]
Episode 1 (15 April)
The first episode of the Blind Auditions was broadcast on 15 April 2012.[1]
Karise Eden (chart position 9), Rachael Leahcar (15), Viktoria Bolonina (28), Emma Birdsall (36) and Fatai V (43) all debuted on the ARIA Charts after their performances.[21]
Week 2 (21 May)
Original broadcast date: 21 May 2012
Contestants' performances – "Live Show Final, Part 2"
Brittany Cairns (chart position 7), Darren Percival (12), Sarah De Bono (13), Diana Rouvas (22), Lakyn Heperi (26) and Ben Hazlewood (35) all debuted on the ARIA Charts after their performances.[24]
Team Joel contestant Carmen Smith was disqualified from the competition before the live show.[Note 2] To keep the teams even, Team Joel only eliminated one contestant in the first live round while the other teams still eliminated two.
Darren Percival (No. 6), Diana Rouvas (No. 16), Ben Hazlewood (No. 17), Sarah De Bono (No. 24), Adam Martin (No. 26) and Lakyn Heperi (No. 39) all debuted on the ARIA Charts in the week after their performances.
Week 5 (11 June)
The fifth episode of the Live Shows, the Semi-Finals, was broadcast on 11 June 2012.
Karise Eden (No. 2), Sarah De Bono (No. 30), Darren Percival (No. 36) and Rachael Leahcar (No. 43) all debuted on the ARIA Charts in the week after their performances.
Week 6: Final (17 June)
The sixth and seventh episodes of the Live Shows, parts one and two of the Live Finale of The Voice Australia, were broadcast on 17 June 2012[27] and 18 June 2012[28] consecutively. In part two of the Live Finale, Karise Eden was announced as the winner and won a recording contract with Universal Music Group, a Ford Focus Titanium and a A$100,000 cash prize. Darren Percival was runner-up, finishing in second place, winning a cash prize of A$30,000. Rachael Leahcar came in third place, winning a cash prize of A$20,000 while Sarah De Bono placed fourth, winning a cash prize of A$10,000 [1].
The final four contestants: Karise Eden, Sarah De Bono, Rachael Leahcar, and Darren Percival.
Key
Winner
Runner-up
Third place
Fourth place
Competition performances
"The Live Finale, Part 1" and "The Live Finale, Part 2"
The Nine Network announced on 3 July 2012 that a one-off charity concert special, Voices Reaching Out, for The Reach Foundation would be aired. The special was staged at The Palms at Crown complex and hosted by The Voice host Darren McMullen. It featured all four finalists, Karise Eden, Darren Percival, Rachael Leahcar and Sarah De Bono. Contestants Prinnie Stevens, Mahalia Barnes, Adam Martin, Ben Hazlewood, Chris Sebastian, Fatai V, Mitchell Johnson, Brittany Cairns, Kelsie Rimmer, Diana Rouvas, Viktoria Bolonina, Emma Birdsall and Casey Withoos also performed. Singer and Team Keith mentor Megan Washington also performed. Also appearing was The Voice social media correspondent Faustina Agolley, joined by Jules Lund and Jesinta Campbell.[29] The 90-minute concert was filmed 12 July 2012 and aired 15 July 2012 on the Nine Network.[30]
Performances
Performer(s)
Song
Glenn Cunningham, Ben Hazlewood, Prinnie Stevens, Mitchell Thompson, Brittany Cairns, Diana Rouvas, Rachael Leahcar, Emma Birdsall, Adam Martin, Chris Sebastian, Sarah De Bono, Casey Withoos, Kelsie Rimmer, Viktoria Bolonina, Fatai V and Darren Percival
Emma Birdsall, Prinnie Stevens, Brittany Cairns, Diana Rouvas, Rachael Leahcar, Sarah De Bono, Casey Withoos, Kelsie Rimmer, Viktoria Bolonina, Fatai V, Karise Eden, Darren Percival, Adam Martin, Chris Sebastian, Mitchell Thompson, Glenn Cunningham, Ben Hazlewood
^Contestant Fatai Veamatahau's stage name was changed to 'Fatai V' from the Live Shows onwards.[20]
^Contestant Carmen Smith was disqualified from the competition after appearing in a music video with singer Guy Sebastian for his song, "Gold". The Nine Network deemed the appearance as an "unfair advantage" over other contestants and it made a decision with the producers of the show to immediately disqualify her from the competition. This is the first disqualification of a contestant in the history of the show's format.[25]
