robertwhyte

Member Since: 18 May 2016

Location: Australia

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Bio: I am an Australian scientist, author, editor and journalist. My works include the novel Manacles (1985), influenced by Irish authors James Joyce and Flann O\\\\\\\'Brien, and a practical guide to creek restoration, The Creek in Our Back Yard (2011). My forthcoming book \\\\\\\"A field Guide to the Spiders of Australia\\\\\\\" for CSIRO Publishing is due in July 2017. In 1976 I was awarded a One Year Young Writer\\\\\\\'s Fellowship by the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts. In 1978 Planet Press, Brisbane, published the 64-page Negative Thinking, a book of short prose pieces and drawings with additional poems by co-author Peter Anderson. In 1980, under the name Robot Wireless, I produced three small experimental books published by Australia\\\\\\\'s New Poetry editor Cheryl Adamson\\\\\\\'s Brou Ha Ha Books, From Inside the Asylum (500 copies), Life and works of Robert Wireless (100 copies) and A 3D Glimpse of the Hearing Process (with Cheryl Adamson and Hugh Ramage). In 1985 I was responsible for editing, design and layout of \\\\\\\"Environment Victoria\\\\\\\", the magazine of the Conservation Council of Victoria, now Environment Victoria. In 1987 I was founding co-editor of contemporary art magazine \\\\\\\"Eyeline\\\\\\\" with Sarah Follent and Graham Coulter-Smith. I was an editor of The Cane Toad Times from 1985 to 1990. Since 2002 I has been an active environmentalist, photographer and nature writer and has written and presented on biodiversity, including Spidiversity, an article published in Australasian Arachnology. In 2010 I was appointed to the position of Director, Save Our Waterways Now, a community environmental organisation restoring habitat in Brisbane\\\\\\\'s west (-2102). Between 2010 and 2013 I undertook habitat restorations projects