Robert Whyte

In 1976 he 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.

[24][25] In 2017 he attended the Bush Blitz, in Quinkan Country inland from Cooktown on Cape York Peninsula, where he photographed and filmed live spiders discovered on the trip.

[26][27][28] In September 2018 Robert Whyte’s discovered 37 new spider species leading the spider team as part of the fauna, flora and fungi stocktake led by John Sinclair of the Fraser Island Defenders Organisation[29] in conjunction with Cooloola Coast Care.

The News Network news.com.au report on "Five reasons why you shouldn't be afraid of spiders" was based on the content of the book.

Whyte in 2013
Robert Whyte delivering a paper on invertebrate biodiversity Photo: Mark Crocker [ 3 ] at the Brisbane City Council's 2010 Biodiversity Forum
Anne Jones, Damien Ledwich, Robert Whyte and mark Bracken, editors of Cane Toad Times.
Anne Jones, Damien Ledwich, Robert Whyte and Mark Bracken, editors of Cane Toad Times.
Robert Whyte at Kiwirrkurra
Robert Whyte far right with the Bush Blitz team in Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protected Area Gibson Desert WA.