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Stephen Whiteside is a bush poet, author and performer. In the early 1990s he began writing rhyming verse for children and was extensively published in the New South Wales School Magazine. The ABC published some of the poems on audio-cassette of Australian stories and poems for children.

His poems have received awards from the Grenfell Henry Lawson competition; the Nimbin Poetry Competition; the Bronze Swagman Competition; Jackie Hosking's competition for rhyming poetry or verse stories for children ('Raspberry Rain', 2017; 'The Big Green Square and the Little Red Dot', 2014).

In 1983, he self-published an audiocasette collection of poems and songs, Back Door Ballads.

Whiteside is a GP in Melbourne.

In addition to works individually indexed on AustLit, Whiteside has also published non-fiction articles in the School Magazine and other periodicals, including the following:

• 'Set Sail for Summer', Orbit, 92.9 (Oct. 2007): 297-301.
• 'How the Whales Were Saved at Crowdy Head', Habitat Australia (Oct. 1985): 22-23.
• 'A World "First" for Australia in Keeping Whales and Dolphins Free', Habitat Australia (Apr. 1986): 12-14.
• 'Coming to the Rescue: Saving Stranded Whales in Australia', Habitat Australia (Oct, 1987): 11-15.
• 'A Hotline to the Dolphin World', Habitat Australia (Aug. 1988): 28-30.
• 'Resue of Stranded Whales in Australia', Whalewatcher (Winter 1988): 4-7.
• 'Operation Whale-savers', Challenger 5 (1985): 24-25.

In Trad&Now, the folk magazine, he published a sequence of articles on Australian folk music. Those that relate to specific Australian poems are individually indexed. Others include the following:

• '"Gum Tree Canoe" Is Not about Eucalypts', Trad&Now, 147 ((2022): 6.