Robert Bibo

Welcome

If your family has an ancestral connection to the south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales regions (Lismore to Eumundi) and the last names of: Bibo, Cagnacci, Dillon, Mackney, Mazzer, Natoli & Natole, O’Keefe, Rummery, Simpson, Smith or Tomkinson, you could be related to immigrants arriving in the late 1800s. Read ‘About‘ for more.

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Family History

  • The Smith Stories
    by Robert Bibo
    Hazel was a cousin of Ivy Smith (1911-1977) the wife of William Smith (1911-1989) a son of Filomena Cagnacci (1886-1970) and grandson of Angelina Sgapponi (1864-1942) then known as Mary Cagnacci. Hazel’s parents were Bertram Smith (1878-1954) and Amy Florence Went (1888-1963). The family was living at Currumbin during Hazel’s childhood.

Economics

  • Challenging the Need for Unemployment
    by Robert Bibo
    Any inflation targeting policy creates and maintains unemployment (by suppressing aggregate demand) as a policy to promote price stability. Political demands for government fiscal austerity, based on claims national debt is a burden and economic activity is constrained by government spending and taxation, makes unemployment worse. The idea that unemployment is needed by society must be challenged.

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Family History

Anton & Rosina Bibo and Guglielmo & Carlotta Cagnacci arrived in Australia in 1873 and 1877 with their young families to grow grapes and begin what is now a much larger family.

Economics

Economics is a social science that should be concerned with how society uses real resources to achieve full employment with price stability.

General

Here is an eclectic collection of interesting historical and contemporary stories, an autobiography and photographs.