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Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia

The political office of the Administrator of the Northern Territory of Australia has been held by the following people.

The present Administrator is Ted Egan AM.

Government Residents of the Northern Territory when annexed to the colony (later state) of South Australia:

Administrators and Government Residents of the Northern Territory after transfer of control to the Commonwealth Government:

There was a brief experiment splitting government with an additional Government Resident (Centre Australia) in Alice Springs.

John Charles Cawood (Government Resident for Centre Australia); 1 March 1927
Robert Hunter Weddell (Government Resident for North Australia); 1 March 1927
Victor George Carrington (Government Resident for Centre Australia); 11 December 1929

Robert Hunter Weddell; (12 June 1931 - 1937)
Charles Lydiard Aubrey Abbott; (29 March 1937 - 1946)
L. H. A. Giles; (1946, acting)
Arthur Robert Driver; (1 July 1946 - 1951)
Frank Joseph Scott Wise; (1 July 1951 - 1956)
James Clarence Archer; (1 July 1956 - 1961)
Roger Bede Nott; (1 April 1961 - 1964)
Roger Levinge Dean; (1 October 1964 - 1970)
Frederick Charles Chaney; (4 March 1970 - 1973)
T. A. O'Brien; (1973, acting)
John Norman Nelson; (10 Dec 1973 - 1975)
E. F. Dwyer; (1975 - 1978, acting)
John Armstrong England; (1 June July 1 1978 - January 1 1981)
Commodore Eric Eugene Johnston; (January 1 1981 - July 1 1989)
James Muirhead; (July 1 1989 - 1993)
Austin Asche; (1 March 1993 - 1997)
Dr Neil Raymond Conn, AO; (17 February 1997 - 2000)
John Anictomatis, AM; (28 November 2000 - 30 October 2003)
Edward (Ted) Joseph Egan, AM; 31 October 2003 - present.

The office of the Deputy of the Administrator was established in 1997.

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