Brian Kirkwall Miller (30 January 1921 – 6 June 2014) was an Australian politician. Born in Queenstown, he was elected to the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ...

in 1957 as the

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member for Newdegate. He held various ministerial portfolios and led the Government in the Council from 1972 to 1982. In 1986 he resigned from the Council to contest the

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election, but he was unsuccessful. In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours Miller was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to the Tasmanian Parliament and to the community".

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1921 births 2014 deaths Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Order of Australia {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub