Alexander Rosewell, Rosheila Dagina, Manoj Murhekar, Berry Ropa, Enoch Posanai, Samir Dutta, Ian Barr, Glen Mola, Anthony Zwi, and C. Raina MacIntyre Author affi liations: World Health Organization, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea (A. Rosewell, M. Murhekar); University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (A. Rosewell, A. Zwi, C.R. MacIntyre); National Department of Health, Por...

The unique context and challenges of leadership in Papua New Guinea are not adequately explained by the extant literature. This paper investigates the context of, and barriers to leadership, in Australia’s closest northern neighbour, as PNG attempts to actively participate in a dynamic, rapidly changing global environment. Historically, PNG is a diverse Nation of tribal societies organised on t...

Lithonecrus papuanus Nieves-Aldrey & Butterill, a new genus and species of inquiline oak gall wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini), is described from material reared from galls on Lithocarpus celebicus (Miq.) Rehd., collected in Papua New Guinea. The new genus and species is the first record of a cynipid from Papua New Guinea and the whole  Oceanian biogeographic region,  and represents th...

The Oceania region, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean, has historically been free from chikungunya. However, the 2011 outbreak in New Caledonia and the on-going outbreak in Papua New Guinea have highlighted the risk to other communities in Oceania where there are competent mosquito vectors and permissive social factors and envi...

Odontomyrme rasnitsyni sp. n. is described and illustrated from Papua New Guinea. A new species similar to O. addenda (André, 1901) Australia (Queensland) but differs by small apicomedial yellowish cuticular spot on metasomal tergum 2 3 with black cuticula. The genus Lelej, 1983 newly recorded Guinea Island.