page_title: Robert Whyte
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Whyte / Biography
context_page_description: Robert Whyte is an Australian writer. He was a founding co-owner and director of the Brisbane-based multimedia firm ToadShow. After 2012 he participated in the Australian Government's new species exploration program Bush Blitz. His works include The Creek in Our Back Yard: a practical guide to creek restoration and A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia for CSIRO Publishing 2017.
context_section_description: Robert Whyte was born in Melbourne in 1955. His family moved to Brisbane in 1957.
  In 1976 he was awarded a One Year Young Writer's Fellowship by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.
  In 1981 he completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies at Alexander Mackie CAE (now University of Western Sydney), and was a contributor to Sydney art magazine Art Network.
  In 1985 he undertook the production of Environment Victoria, the magazine of the Conservation Council of Victoria, now Environment Victoria. In 1987 he was founding co-editor of contemporary art magazine Eyeline with Sarah Follent and Graham Coulter-Smith.
  Robert Whyte was a co-owner of ToadShow,  a multimedia firm in Brisbane, Queensland. 
  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. Between 2010 and 2013 he undertook habitat restorations projects in South East Queensland. In 2011 his book The creek in our backyard: A practical guide for landholders was published, an expanded second edition appearing in 2013 A field guide to the spiders of Australia for CSIRO Publishing was released 1 June 2017.
caption: Anne Jones, Damien Ledwich, Robert Whyte and Mark Bracken, editors of Cane Toad Times.
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