Australia's unethical deportation practice discriminates against New Zealanders with mental illness: 'Everybody needs good neighbours!'.

In this article, we explore Australia's deportation of people with mental illness from an ethical and human rights perspective. We outline the legislative framework regulating migration policy in Australia, focussing on Section 501 (s.501) of the Migration Act 1958 (which makes provision for deportation of non-residents on character grounds) and on the recently issued Direction 99 (which provides guidance on visa refusal and cancellation under s.

Clinically, what ought we to believe?

Objective:: To question the status of the randomised controlled trial (RCT) in the hierarchy of evidence.

Conclusions:: The RCT provides important and clinically relevant information, particularly in psychopharmacology. However, and as with other methodologies, RCTs too are flawed and automatic abdication to their conclusions, especially in complex social interventions, is unwise.

Trainee welfare: a New Zealand perspective.

Objective: To explore key sources of stress experienced during training by psychiatry registrars and identify which coping strategies they found helpful or unhelpful.

Method: We used three data sources: a) 'stress' vignettes written by Stage 3 trainees; b) minutes of regular registrar meetings; c) focus groups. We analysed these using abbreviated grounded theory, generating themes.

What do doctors know about assessing decision-making capacity?

Aims: To survey hospital doctors (HDs) and general practitioners (GPs) on what they know about assessing capacity, and to determine their educational needs.

Method: A mixed-methods, cross-sectional survey was administered to a convenience sample of HDs and GPs. Respondents were asked about their roles, the prevalence of older patients they had seen, specific questions about capacity assessment, difficulties encountered and their preferred format for further education.