Robert Whyte - Profile and Journalist Details

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Biography

Robert Whyte is an honorary researcher in arachnology at the Queensland Museum, having developed an interest in spiders with the encouragement of arachnologist Robert Raven. He has participated in five Bush Blitz biodiscovery expeditions in remote parts of Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. He is an accomplished editor, author, journalist and photographer. His works include a practical guide to creek restoration, The Creek in Our Back Yard (2011) and the forthcoming "Field Guide to Spiders of Australia" for CSIRO Publishing info at http://www.publish.csiro.au/book/6899/ due 1 June 2017, In 1976 Robert Whyte was awarded a One Year Young Writer's Fellowship by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 1987 he was founding co-editor of contemporary art magazine "Eyeline" with Sarah Follent and Graham Coulter-Smith.[7] Robert Whyte is a co-owner of ToadShow Pty Ltd, a multimedia firm Brisbane, Queensland. He has taught new media and writing at Griffith University, University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. During the 1980s and 90s he was a lecturer at the Australian School of Journalism, teaching the freelance journalism component. As a web designer he was responsible for "Brisbane Stories" a collection of web sites revealing stories of hidden Brisbane featuring art, environment and history. Robert Whyte was an editor of The Cane Toad Times from 1985 to 1990. Since 2002 he has been an active environmentalist, photographer and nature writer and has written and presented on biodiversity, including Spidiversity, an article published in Australasian Arachnology.

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• The Tales People Tell, by Kelly Finnigan

  By Peter Brennan, Bryan Wagman, Robert Whyte, Kelly Finnigan · Bandcamp Daily

  Feb. 17, 2019

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