Profile of a spymaster: from knitting to code breaking - the life and career of Australia’s first female intelligence agency boss, Rachel Noble

As a child Rachel Noble always thought her father was an engineer – the nation’s top cyber spy had no idea he was actually a spy.

When Rachel Noble was a young girl living in Perth, she thought her dad was an ordinary engineer. She knew he had been in the Air Force and was based at RAAF Base Pearce, but that was about it.

Little did she know that the mili…