Last Friday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the next Independent Intelligence Review, to be conducted by two former senior figures from the Office of National Assessments (before it be...
https://andrewzammit.org/2023/09/25/on-the-new-independent-intelligence-review/
Terrorism studies is a famously interdisciplinary field. By most accounts, the field’s dominant discipline is political science followed closely by psychology and then by other disciplines such...
https://andrewzammit.org/2023/05/26/disciplinary-divides-in-terrorism-studies/
The release of the 976-page official military history, Born of Fire and Ash: Australian operations in response to the East Timor crisis 1999-2000, has revived controversies over Australia’s rol...
https://andrewzammit.org/2023/04/30/history-wars-over-australias-role-in-timors-freedom/
Over at the Lowy Interpreter, Sam Roggeveen wrote a fun post on this endlessly shared clip from the sitcom Utopia: One of the episode’s sub-plots revolves around a fictional new Australian Defe...
The Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM) is the most important national security oversight body in Australia. Its role is to review the appropriateness and effectiveness of A...
https://andrewzammit.org/2023/03/07/highlights-from-the-inslms-latest-annual-report/
Starting 2023 with a quick update on some of my research interests. I’ve had two new publications recently. The first was this Lawfare post co-authored with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Emelie Chac...
https://andrewzammit.org/2023/01/04/january-2023-publications-update/
On 28 November 2022, the Director-General of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) announced the lowering of the National Terrorism Threat Level from Probable to Possible. This...
Time to return to this neglected blog to share some personal updates. First, I recently completed the PhD. I submitted it for examination in November 2021, passed with minor amendments in March 2...
I haven’t been blogging here much as I am still yet to finish the PhD. However, I want to re-share things I published or produced during 2020: An episode of the podcast Sub Rosa, “Technology ...
https://andrewzammit.org/2021/03/08/phd-and-publications-update/
I have a correspondence piece published in the 10th edition of Australian Foreign Affairs, responding to Kim McGrath’s excellent essay “Drawing the line: Witness K and the ethics of spying”...