By Barbara Miller
Book Signings & Launches
2 Feb 2:30pm 2020
Come along to Barbara’s launch for her new book ‘White Australia Has a Black History‘ and her very latest book ‘Shattered Lives Broken Dreams‘, on the 2nd of February 2020 at the Sydney Jewish Museum.
Barbara would love to see you there!
Where: Sydney Jewish Museum, 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst
When: Sunday 2 February, 2.30pm, 2020
Book Launch: ‘White Australia Has A Black History’ by Barbara Miller
3 Dec 7:30pm 2019
Author Barbara Miller is giving a talk at the LAMM Jewish Library of Australia in the first week of December. Come and hear her speak on her William Cooper books and the Holocaust.
Where: Lamm Jewish Library of Australia: 304 Hawthorn Rd, Caulfield South, Victoria
When: 7:30pm, Tuesday 3rd December
Bookings: 92725611
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Barbara will have a give-away of chapter one with a cover photo of her soon coming book ‘Shattered Lives Broken Dreams: William Cooper and Australian Aborigines Protest Holocaust‘
We hope to see you there!
8 Dec 2019
If you can get there, go to the wonderfully creative Kristallnacht Cantata in Melbourne on 8 Dec where you will hear world-class musicians and singers and hear an imagined duet between Aboriginal William Cooper and Kristallnacht survivor Otto Jontof-Hutter. If you can’t make it, consider donating to this worthy cause. Anything above the production costs will go to the Aboriginal group Mullum Mullum Gathering Place -they need repairs to their building- and also accommodation for the homeless. The Mullum Mullum Yeng Gali Choir will be singing in the first half-and invited Otto’s grandson Ron to play Amazing Grace with them. The link to donate is https://australianculturalfund.org.au/projects/kristallnacht-cantata/
Barbara will have a special promotion for her book White Australia Has A Black History: William Cooper and First Nations Peoples’ Political Activism available at the Kristallnacht Cantata Melbourne, on the night of Dec 8; with $5 for each book sold going to the Kristallnacht Cantata.
Barbara will also have a give-away of chapter one with a cover photo of her soon coming book Shattered Lives Broken Dreams: William Cooper and Australian Aborigines Protest Holocaust.
We hope to see you there!
Barbara is guest speaker for Library Week at the Smithfield Library at 10.30am 23 May 19
14 Feb 7pm 2019
Nazi Germany and the Jews. 100 year old Lena Goldstein’s miracle story
“If I Survive.” This thought haunted Lena. Her loved ones were cruelly forced from her armsin the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland and perished in Treblinka Death Camp. This is a true storyof Holocaust survival. Lena kept thinking, “It’s my turn next.” How did she survive?
Author Barbara Miller tells Lena’s compelling story from interviews, her diary and historicalresearch to put it in context.
Book to be launched by John Searle, Barrister.
Where: Jewish Holocaust Centre, 13-15 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick
When: 7pm, Thursday 14 February 2019
Enquiries: Barbara Miller 0466 076 020
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Jewish Holocaust Centre Melbourne book launch If I Survive flyer 14.2.19
Updated: Mon 4th Feb 2019
11 Feb 1pm 2019
Where: NSW Parliament House, Hosted by Rev Hon Fred Nile MLC
When: 11 Feb 1pm
Booking: Booking required to Judy Russell judy.russell@iinet.net.au
Updated 4th Feb 2019
10 Feb 2.30pm 2019
Where: SYDNEY JEWISH MUSEUM, 148 Darlinghurst Road, Darlinghurst
When: Sunday 10th February at 2.30pm
If I Survive: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 100-Year-Old Lena Goldstein’s Miracle Story by author Barbara Miller tells the story of Holocaust survivor Helena (Lena) Goldstein. Lena has been a volunteer at the Sydney Jewish Museum since its inception 26 years ago. Aged 100, Lena continues to tell her story of survival to groups of students at the Museum.
This is Barbara’s second book on the topic of the Holocaust. Her first, published in 2012, explored the life of William Cooper, an Indigenous Australian after whom an Academic Chair of Resistance to the Holocaust was named in 2010. Barbara is a psychologist and sociologist, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards for the Qld Premiers Award for a Work of State Significance in 2018 for her book, White Woman Black Heart, Journey Home to Old Mapoon, A Memoir.
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Book Launch Sydney Jewish Museum 10.2.19
Updated 4th Feb 2019
31st July 2018
Paper Chain Bookshop
34 Franklin St Manuka 6pm 31 July
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/paperchainbookstore/
Website: https://paperchainbookstore.com.au/
24th July 2018
BOOK LAUNCH ABORIGINES ADVANCEMENT LEAGUE
This is a highly engaging and inspiring memoir. At its centre is the story of Mapoon which has all the elements of a great drama with the violent expulsion of the community in 1963 and their triumphant return eleven years later. As the author explains she came almost by chance to be at the very centre of the drama which in turn dramatically changed her life. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in political and social change over the last 50 years.
Professor Henry Reynolds, FAHA FASSA University of Tasmania, eminent historian and award-winning author of numerous books.
Barbara Miller has written this book, a continuum to the trilogy of the Mapoon books and towards the modern history of the western Cape York region. It is a testimony to the endurance and resilience of the people of the district and the determination of the people to return to the land of their forefathers.
Ricky Guivarra, former Mapoon Aboriginal Shire Councillor
Jean Jimmy and the plight of the Mapoon people was known to Ps Doug Nicholls and others from the AAL who supported her efforts and on the night of the Mapoon people’s return 19.9.74, they were visited by John Roberts to give the AAL the good news at their meeting that night.
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BOOK LAUNCH Melbourne White Woman Black Heart 24.7.18
18th June 2018
Monday 18 June 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
In store at Avid Reader Bookshop
Register until 18 June 2018 6:00 PM
This event commences at 6.30pm. Printed tickets are not issued and your booking will be on a door list under your surname.
Barbara Miller – White Woman Black Heart
Bob Weatherall introduces Barbara Miller’s memoir White Woman Black Heart: Journey Home to Old Mapoon.
Barbara often found herself saying, “the stork dropped me at the wrong house’ only to find she was repeating her mother’s words. In this riveting memoir exploring race relations and social change, Aboriginal elder Burnum Burnum, told her, “you may be white but you have a black heart, as you understand my people and feel our heart.’ He suggested to International Development Action that she take on the Mapoon project and played matchmaker by introducing her to Aboriginal teacher and Australian civil rights movement leader Mick Miller.
The Mapoon Aborigines were forcibly moved off their land by the Queensland government in NE Australia in 1963 to make way for mining. With an effective team behind her, Barbara helped them move back in 1974 to much government opposition which saw her under house arrest with Marjorie Wymarra. It also saw Jerry Hudson and Barbara taken to court.
In helping the Mapoon people return to their homeland, she found her home as part of an Aboriginal family, firstly Mick’s and later Norman’s as she remarried many years later, now being with her soulmate Norman about 30 years. It is a must read for those interested in ethnic studies and political science as an isolated outback community whose houses, school, health clinic, store and church were burnt to the ground rose from the ashes and rebuilt despite all the odds. It is a testimony to the Mapoon people’s strength.
Barbara’s husband Norman will be performing a song he wrote called ‘Reconciliation’.
From her background in a poor working class white family in urban Australia, Barbara, with Aboriginal husband Norman, who is also a pastor, travel the world. They have a calling to heal groups from the wounds of history through the Centre for International Reconciliation and Peace they co-founded in 1998. This work has taken them to Israel, Jordan, Turkey, England, Zimbabwe, Canada, USA, PNG, Vanuatu and many other places.
Barbara has worked at the coalface of Aboriginal affairs in Australia from her involvement in the Aboriginal Tent Embassy demonstrations in Canberra in 1972 to helping the Mapoon people move back to their land in 1974, to co-founding the North Queensland Land Council with former husband Mick Miller in 1977 to being CEO of the Aboriginal Co-ordinating Council (ACC) in the 1990’s and much more. The ACC was the only statutory advisory body to the Queensland government on Aboriginal affairs at the time and represented local government Aboriginal councils who had a land base.
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18th July 2018
Wednesday 18 July
1.15pm
FREE
Barbara Miller is an intriguing combination of social justice campaigner and researcher with sociological training. As a psychologist, she has helped many people break free of mindsets that have prevented them reaching their full potential.
23rd July 2018
CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW
Monday 23 July at 12 Noon
Macquarie Room NSW Parliament House
Macquarie Street Sydney
GUEST SPEAKER: THE HON PAUL GREEN MLC
‘Modern Slavery Bill 2018’
Purpose of the Bill: To make provision with respect to slavery, slavery-like practices and human trafficking and to provide for the appointment and functions of an Anti-Slavery Commissioner and for other purposes.
And Book Launch/Signing with BARBARA MILLER and her book ‘White Woman Black Heart:
Journey Home To Old Mapoon, A Memoir’
This is a highly engaging and inspiring memoir. At its centre is the story of Mapoon which has all the elements of a great drama with the violent expulsion of the community in 1963 and their triumphant return eleven years later. As the author explains she came almost by chance to be at the very centre of the drama which in turn dramatically changed her life. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in political and social change over the last 50 years.
$15 per person. RSVP to Judy 0410 403 616 or judyrussell.private@gmail.com by 18/7/18
