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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

  • Family History Reunion
    There are over 400 living direct descendants of Anton and Rosina, a couple who arrived in Australia in 1873 with their children. The family settled in the Lismore district of New South Wales. A family reunion will be held in the Lismore area in late 2027.

Economics

  • The Inflation Warrant
    There is insufficient evidence to claim increasing the OCR has a significant influence of prices. Because there is no apparent benefit the pain inflicted on mortgage holders is not warranted.

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

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