He made his debut in 1961, for a Norm Smith coached team which had appeared in the previous seven VFL Grand Finals.
In 1966-67, Miller was an assistant professor of law at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and between 1967 and 1970 he was a human rights officer at the United Nations in New York.
[1] He became a barrister in 1971, signing the Victorian Bar Roll on 11 November 1971; he also lectured in law at Monash University between 1971 and 1979.
[1] He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1970 and nine years later was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Prahran.
When his second term ended in 1985, Miller contested the seat of Monash in the Victorian Legislative Council but lost to the Liberal's Reg Macey.