NormanMiller
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 NormanMiller:
7 May 2026
1.3 MINS
Calls to "Globalise the Intifada" amount to incitement of racial hatred and support of terrorism. This must not be tolerated in a democratic society, say Indigenous Friends of Israel International co-founders.
13 February 2026
1.7 MINS
Indigenous Friends of Israel states that Grace Tame should be stripped of her Australian of the Year award. Her anti-Israel protest chant incited violence and promoted dangerous rhetoric.
1 January 2026
2.7 MINS
Indigenous Friends of Israel has issued a press release calling for a Royal Commission into the Bondi massacre and the escalation of antisemitism in Australia.
18 December 2025
1.8 MINS
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese didn’t fire the guns at Bondi Beach, but he and Foreign Minister Penny Wong provided the ammunition with their continual criticism of Israel since October 7, even before Israel responded to the horrific attack by Hamas.
3 November 2025
1.7 MINS
Munganbana Norman Miller, an Aboriginal artist and co-founder of the Indigenous Friends of Israel with his wife Barbara, is travelling to Israel to gift a large two-metre boomerang he made and painted for the Israeli government.
10 July 2025
3.4 MINS
With antisemitism increasing in Australian schools, an Indigenous-led organisation has developed an age-appropriate curriculum to help protect Jewish students and build cohesion among young Australians.
4 July 2025
0.9 MINS
Indigenous Friends of Israel International is hosting an event to launch our Antisemitism Education Project on 7 July in Cairns, as we honour the legacy of William Cooper and his brave stand against antisemitism.
7 April 2025
1.7 MINS
The Mediscare campaign by the Labor Party is an unethical, unscrupulous attempt to put fear into the electorate, already suffering from a cost-of-living crisis and unable to afford the medical treatment they need.
9 December 2024
4.3 MINS
My stand is against the treatment of Israel by the Australian government and the United Nations. The Australian government would rather reward the terrorism of October 7 and has continually pushed for a two-state solution, when all the terrorists want is a one-state solution.
24 October 2024
5.5 MINS
The October 7 massacre was exactly 50 years from the attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, October 6-7 in 1973, also a surprise attack. Simchat Torah marks the end of the cycle of reading the Torah and the beginning of the next cycle. So, I see it as a new beginning for the Jewish people.
10 October 2024
1.3 MINS
Contrary to the claims of Leah House at the pro-Palestinian rally in Canberra on Tuesday, many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia and Indigenous people around the world are standing with Israel as they defend themselves from terrorist attacks.
19 April 2023
3 MINS
I have been a big supporter of the recognition of First Nations people in the Australian constitution and removal of racism from the constitution since 2012 when the Expert Panel on Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in the Constitution brought out its recommendations. [...]
