Introducing Jonah Takalua

Jonah Takalua is a 13-year-old school boy in year 8 at Summer Heights High. He is of Tongan descent and lives with his father. Jonah, however acts up at school, treating his teachers with disrespect and bullying younger students. He is at serious risk of being expelled.

Summer Heights High is Jonah's third school after being expelled from two others in eighteen months for setting fire to a student's locker and defacing a staff member's car respectively. Jonah now attends "Gumnut Cottage", a remedial class for students at Summer Heights High who have reading difficulties and he is stated to have a reading level of an eight year old.

Jonah claims to have a girlfriend named "Amanda, or some shit". However, Jonah's close friends believe he is "full of shit" and dispute her existence.