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=== Director/Director-General === {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Name !! Term began !! Term ended |- |Teddy Poulden |1 April 1947<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cdr John Edward 'Teddy' Poulden RN |url=https://www.gchq.gov.uk/person/teddy-poulden |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=www.gchq.gov.uk |language=en}}</ref> |1949 |- |R.N. Thompson |1949<ref>{{Cite web |title=75th Anniversary Timeline |url=https://www.asd.gov.au/75th-anniversary/timeline/}}</ref> |1977 |- |R.D. Botterill |1977<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pfennigwerth |first=Ian |title=Man of Intelligence |publisher=Rosenberg Publishing |year=2006 |isbn=9781877058417}}</ref> |1982 |- |Tim James |1982 |1994 |- |Martin Brady |1994<ref>{{Cite web |title=Corporate governance structure |url=https://www.transparency.gov.au/annual-reports/defence-housing-australia/reporting-year/2018-2019-24}}</ref> |1999 |- |Ron Bonighton |1999 |2002 |- |Stephen Merchant |2002 |{{dts|May 2007}} |- | Ian McKenzie || align="right" | {{dts|May 2007}}|| align="right" | {{dts|November 2013}} |- | Paul Taloni || align=right | {{dts|November 2013}}<ref name="itnews-infosec">{{cite news|last1=Coyne|first1=Allie|title=Defence appoints new infosec chief|url=https://www.itnews.com.au/news/defence-appoints-new-infosec-chief-361736|access-date=28 October 2017|work=iTnews|publisher=nextmedia Pty Ltd|date=24 October 2013}}</ref> || align=right | {{dts|3 December 2017}} |- | [[Mike Burgess (intelligence chief)|Mike Burgess]] || align=right | {{dts|4 January 2018}} || align=right | {{dts|15 September 2019}} |- | [[Rachel Noble]] || align=right | {{dts|February 2020}} || align=right | {{dts|September 2024}} |- | Abigail Bradshaw || align=right | {{dts|September 2024}} || align=right | ''Incumbent'' |}
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