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 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. [...]
19 October 2022
1.8 MINS
Jihadi Bob Carr has been pushing the terrorist organisation Hamas’ position for some years. So now we have Penny Wong, Anthony Albanese, Tony Burke, and the ALP cabinet reversing the previous government’s decision to recognise that West Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Who is [...]
26 August 2022
2 MINS
With the removal of Captain Cook's statue, Cairns is ready for a new Australian symbol. A giant boomerang would be a fantastic attraction as tourism to the region revives. I will have a very Big Boomerang in the Cairns Festival Parade tomorrow. This has been [...]
5 July 2022
1.9 MINS
William Cooper was a man of principle who represented his people in founding the National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC), while also protesting against the treatment of the Jews as the Holocaust loomed. Munganbana, the boomerang man, will be marching again in the [...]
14 May 2022
3.4 MINS
Intention Prayers of petition from earth to heaven are wonderful, but we can also decree from heavenly places and shift the atmosphere on earth. Scripture “You shall also decree a thing and it shall be established to you. Light shall shine on your ways.” – [...]
11 January 2022
2 MINS
Jews are Indigenous to Israel. The boycott of the Sydney Festival by various politically-correct artists over a single Israeli performance in the month-long cultural event is causing division rather than bringing peace. Terrorist organisation Hamas made a statement late last week regarding the Sydney Festival, [...]
5 January 2022
1.8 MINS
Indigenous artist Munganbana Norman Miller is gravely disappointed by the fire set by activists at Old Parliament House last week. He is alarmed that it may have destroyed Aboriginal art, in particular a giant boomerang he created, signifying unity and healing. Munganbana Norman Miller is [...]
8 July 2021
2.7 MINS
Munganbana Norman Miller, Convenor of the Voice of First Nations Peoples Against Euthanasia, said from Cairns today: “We need to protect our elders, First Nations and others, from the Queensland government’s plans to legalise euthanasia in the form of Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation, and I [...]
19 June 2021
2.6 MINS
“Regarding the recent motion by the Queensland ALP on Israel, it is the Jewish people who have been subject to ethnic cleansing from the land of Israel for many centuries,” said Norman and Barbara Miller, Convenors of the Indigenous Friends of Israel. “If you want [...]
24 May 2021
2 MINS
Munganbana Norman Miller, Convenor of the Voice of First Nations Peoples Against Euthanasia, said from Cairns today that “All lives matter and Black Lives Matter.” He said, “Because the Queensland government will be introducing Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation into parliament this week, we have to [...]
30 March 2020
4.3 MINS
I sensed the Lord was saying that it is a Davidic anointing that will deal with the Covid-19. The Lord gave me Dovid-19, and a number of scriptures where He highlighted chapter 19. Barbara pointed out that Dovid is the Jewish (Yiddish) spelling for David. [...]
27 February 2020
1.4 MINS
Two days ago, Pastor Norman Miller, whose Aboriginal name is Munganbana, presented a giant boomerang supporting religious freedom and freedom of speech to Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells at Parliament House at 3:15 p.m. Australia needs a Religious Discrimination Act to provide greater protection to people of [...]