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Robert Zammit

Australian television vet

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ7351339
Source-derived summary

Robert Zammit is an Australian veterinarian and television personality.

Career

He practices in Sydney and was a featured veterinarian on the long-running TV show Burke's Backyard. He currently hosts a weekly radio show on 2GB. Zammit initially worked as a consultant veterinary surgeon on A Country Practice then began on-screen work with Channel Seven on Terry Willese Tonight. He later appeared as veterinarian on the Today Show then worked with Kerri-Anne Kennerley on the Midday Show.

While still maintaining a veterinary practice on the outskirts of Sydney, his interest in zoo work has seen his family rear some unusual pets including lion cubs, tigers and a puma.

Zammit is an ambassador for the Animal Welfare League of NSW, as well as the director of Zambi Wildlife Retreat alongside Traci Griffiths and Donna Wilson.

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This entry incorporates text from Robert Zammit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.