Robert 'Bob' Henry Miller (born 12 March 1941) is a former Labor Party politician. He was also an

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er who played for

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in the

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(VFL) during the early 1960s. Miller, who was used mostly as a ruck-rover or defender, was recruited to the Melbourne Football Club from Horsham. He made his debut in 1961, for a Norm Smith coached team which had appeared in the previous seven VFL Grand Finals. Although Miller contested finals in his first three seasons, including a Preliminary Final loss in 1963, he never got to play in a premiership decider. Melbourne did make the 1964 VFL Grand Final, which they won, but Miller was not selected. He retired at the end of the 1965 season, having played 69 senior games with Melbourne. In 1966-67, Miller was an assistant professor of law at the

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, Canada, and between 1967 and 1970 he was a human rights officer at the

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in New York. He became a

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in 1971, signing the Victorian Bar Roll on 11 November 1971; he also lectured in law at

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between 1971 and 1979. He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1970 and nine years later was elected to the

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for the

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. Miller served two terms. When his second term ended in 1985, Miller contested the seat of Monash in the

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but lost to the Liberal's Reg Macey.

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Victorian Parliament: Miller, Robert Henry

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