Cascomp BJT Amplifier vs. traditional configurations

All transistor circuits introduce distortion. In Radio Frequency (RF) circuits, the third-order distortion components are the most important. The quest for more linear circuits has become more important with complex-modulation as used in modern cellular phone systems. Quinn’s Cascomp Amplifier, first reported in the 1970s, promises ideal linearity and can deliver close to that promise. We review the theory and address the question of why the Cascomp has not replaced other configurations in amplifiers where low distortion is important. Calculations are supported by measurements. A new, alternative variant of the Cascomp topology is introduced and compared with the existing configura-tion. We assert that the improved linearity comes at such a price in gain that it does not make sense to use the configuration in broadband RF circuits

After the White-Out: Indigenous Policy Post-Howard

Australia is not currently hearing the voices, white or indigenous, who can lead debate. Too often white politicians respond to events or issues, e.g., the Redfern riot (see Arena Magazine No. 70), with irrelevancies or to push unrelated agendas. Nobody wants to go first on the big issues, it seems. There is no lack of documentation or ideas from the indigenous side. Patrick Dodson's 1999 Lingiari lecture, the 1998 Kalkaringi statement, the three indigenous social justice reports of 1995, the one-liners or more of various constitutional discussions of the past years, the Reconciliation Council work, etc., all provide practical ideas and much consensus

The Trouble with Northern Territories

If Australians do not wish a predictable international race relations disaster in the Northern Territory, they must broker a future in which Aboriginal rights, self-government, and indigenous culture are secure

Nunavut, a Northern Ideal

The article examines the reality of Nunavut, a community of only 27,000 people, most of them Inuit (formerly called Eskimos), who became self-governing with their own parliament, cabinet, and premier in April 1999. Nunavut replaces the former Northwest Territories, the largest part of Canada

The White-Out at the End of History: A Visitor in Sapmi

A comment on Sami politics and native title issues in Norway, with updated remarks from 2003

Nunavut or None of it?

Pauline Hanson's speech in federal Parliament on 2 June, 1998, attacked the United Nations draft declaration on indigenous rights. The author points out errors in her statements about indigenous self-government in Canadian territories and the creation of Nunavut

Reconciliation and Renewal

The author states that Australia has more disadvantaged and marginalised indigenous peoples than other 'first world' countries. Without positive moves towards reconciliation, these problems will not go away - they will merely get worse. Respect and hope - and the fundamental legal and political recognition of indigenous peoples which provides those, or sets in train processes for negotiated change - are the only way ahead

When We Dead Awaken! (Aboriginal Reconciliation in Norway & Silence in Australia)

The author contrasts reconciliation between Sami people and the general population in Norway with the lack of progress on indigenous issues in Australia

The Indigenous Social Justice Process of 1994-95

In June 1992 the Mabo decision of the High Court ended the legal and political fiction that Australia was terra nullius - land owned and occupied by no-one before British settlement in 1788. The Court found that native title existed in spite of first British and later Australian government, and that valid rights had been allocated by the community of Meriam (Murray Islanders) in Torres Strait and, by extension, other Torres Strait Islanders and Aborigines. The social and moral consequences of the previous situation had been as bad as the legal one, giving many non-Indigenous people an excuse for ignoring Indigenous needs. Now all was changed

Prime Ministerial Indigenous Interventions

Canada and Australia are now far apart on policy direction for indigenous issues. While Australia's John Howard is trying to shut down elected political and administrative institutions as part of his doctrine that indigenous people are not a political community or communities, the Canadian government accepts indigenous peoples as a de facto third order of government (alongside federal and provincial/territorial governments), and will undoubtedly enshrine this formally in the Constitution someday soon