List of Home and Away characters (2016)
Justin Morgan, played by James Stewart, made his first screen appearance on 7 June 2016. The character and Stewart's casting was announced on 5 December 2015, alongside Jackson Heywood and Orpheus Pledger, who play Justin's brothers. The actors began filming their first scenes during the week commencing 7 December. Justin is Stewart's first on-going role since he took a year off to care for his young daughter. Like Heywood, Stewart expected Braxton brothers comparisons, but he told Jonathon Moran of The Daily Telegraph, "Creating this family is probably more our priority than taking over the Brax boys. How do you take on Steve Peacocke (Brax)? I hope Australia is ready for it, it is the way it is." In August 2017, Stewart was longlisted for Best Daytime Star at the Inside Soap Awards. The nomination did not progress to the viewer-voted shortlist.
List of Home and Away characters (2010)
Elijah Johnson played by Jay Laga'aia made his first appearance on 11 February 2010. Laga'aia's casting was announced in November 2009 into the serial to play a new local reverend, Elijah Johnson. Elijah was introduced as a potential love interest for established character Leah Patterson-Baker (Ada Nicodemou). Laga'aia left the serial in 2010 but co-star Nicodemou later called for Laga'aia's character to return to the serial. Laga'aia had agreed to rejoin the cast "Home and Away" and returned to filming at the end of the month. Laga'aia described Elijah as not being a typical Reverend and when you see him in normal clothing people would mistake him for a rugby player. In February 2012, Colin Vickery of the "Herald Sun" reported Laga'aia had finished filming with "Home and Away" the previous year. "Inside Soap" asked its readers to decide who their favourite "clergyman" was in a poll which Elijah gained the lowest number of votes, receiving nine percent of the poll.