Norman & Barbara Miller
Together with her husband Norman, Barbara planted the Tabernacle of David, a church in Cairns in 1996. A year later, Barbara and Norman also founded the parachurch Centre for International Reconciliation and Peace. Barbara and Norman helped launch the Canberra Declaration and the National Day of Prayer and Fasting. They have also led a number of prayer events for Australia Day and conferences in many Australian cities.
Norman is an Aboriginal artist with his own gallery. He is of the Jirrbal, Bar-Barrum and Tableland Yidinji peoples of north Queensland. His book “Reef and Rainforest” won third prize in the IPPY awards in Chicago in 2016 for multicultural non-fiction. Norman has campaigned for recognition of Indigenous people in the Constitution, and handed the “Miller Boomerang Petition” to Federal Parliament in 2013 and 2016, which collected over 5,000 signatures.
Barbara is also the author of several books, most of them on Australian history and biography, including one about a 100-year-old Holocaust survivor. Barbara was a finalist in the main prize of the Queensland Literary Awards 2018 for her memoir “White Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon, a Memoir.”
Articles by Norman & Barbara Miller:
16 January 2025
1.4 MINS
Prime Minister Albanese is fiddling and singing his own praises about how he has tackled antisemitism while Rome burns: in this case, Melbourne and Sydney.
11 December 2024
4.8 MINS
Our Prime Minister’s priorities are so wrong that he doesn’t visit a burning synagogue, but flies to Perth, has drinks with donors and plays tennis. It sounds like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burns. Even worse, he denied playing tennis until caught out by a reporter.
6 December 2024
1.4 MINS
It is a retrograde step by the Australian government to support a United Nations (UN) motion that effectively requires Israel to withdraw from so-called “occupied territories”.
27 November 2024
2.2 MINS
By supporting the ICC’s move, Australia would have to arrest PM Netanyahu if he visited, and it is saying it believes PM Netanyahu is a war criminal. Australia is supporting the weaponisation of international legal organisations.
13 November 2024
1.8 MINS
In Amsterdam last week, Jews were hunted down, thrown into the river, beaten unconscious, stabbed, and rammed by cars. Men, women and children were attacked. Some have been kidnapped. It was the eve of the 86th anniversary of Kristallnacht in Germany and Austria.
8 August 2024
2.5 MINS
The Israeli Ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, was reportedly summoned to a meeting in Canberra in June and warned his nation could not expect Australia's support if it went to war with listed terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
26 July 2024
2.2 MINS
Poster girl for Hamas, Senator Lidia Thorpe, should resign. Her latest radical chic is a green Hamas-style headband in Arabic. What's more, she arrived in a pro-Palestine dress at the mid-winter parliamentary ball, embroidered with the genocidal phrase "from the river to the sea".
19 June 2024
3.3 MINS
The latest Never Again is Now rally was held in Brisbane on Sunday, 9 June 2024. 1,500 people registered and enjoyed a peaceful event with Christians, Jews and others attending, including the Iranian community, who also suffer from the Iranian regime.
31 May 2024
2.7 MINS
The Sky News documentary "Never Again: The Fight Against Antisemitism" is a defining moment for Australia, as a number of prominent Australian leaders called out the alarming rise of antisemitism in Australia.
23 May 2024
3.1 MINS
With rising antisemitism around the world since October 7 and Holocaust denial, even denial of October 7 atrocities despite Hamas’ own footage, it is more important now than ever that International Holocaust Remembrance Day not be wiped off our calendar.
14 May 2024
2.1 MINS
On the eve of the 76th anniversary of the proclamation of the state of Israel on 14 May 1948, Australia has betrayed the only democracy in the Middle East at the recent UN vote on Palestine.
16 January 2024
2.2 MINS
Australia is letting down the only democratic state in the Middle East, Israel, and letting down its number one ally in the world, the US, in a distressing loss of moral compass and strategic naivete.
15 December 2023
2.6 MINS
We agree with Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, who said he finds it difficult to understand how Australia can support Israel’s right to defend its people from terrorist aggression, while also voting in support of a ceasefire that will embolden Hamas.
12 December 2023
1.3 MINS
Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller condemn the ignorance, racism, and antisemitism of the Greens MPs in the Australian Senate in recent weeks and of the Greens’ mayoral candidate for Brisbane, Mr Sri.
8 November 2023
3 MINS
Indigenous Friends of Israel founders Norman and Barbara Miller refuted the claims of Brother Ismael recently at the Al Madina Dawah Centre, southwest Sydney that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation. He also called for Jihad.
12 October 2023
1.8 MINS
The pro-Hamas rally in Sydney on 9 October 2023 was racist, anti-Semitic and a genocidal mob that called out “Death to the Jews”, “Gas the Jews”.
9 October 2023
0.9 MINS
Indigenous Friends of Israel founders, Norman and Barbara Miller, condemn the terrorist invasion of Israel by Hamas.
11 August 2023
2.4 MINS
We condemn the decision by the Albanese government to throw Israel under a bus by calling its holiest sites including the Temple Mount and Western Wall ‘occupied territories’. At best, they are the heartland of Israel, Judea, and Samaria. At worst, disputed territories. Foreign Minister [...]
21 May 2023
3.1 MINS
Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To pray for Christians to be mobilised to share the gospel boldly with miracles following. Scripture “Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by [...]
28 February 2023
2.5 MINS
A press release from Indigenous Friends of Israel (IFI) co-founders Norman and Barbara Miller on this year's Adelaide Writers' Festival's biased stance on Israel and Palestine. Adelaide Writers' Festival organisers seem to think free speech reads hate speech or racist speech, which is not so. [...]