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Don Fry

An Australian engineer, company director, entrepreneur and philanthropist

Fry is Owner & Chairman of AIMTEK (formerly NQEA Australia Pty Ltd, formerly North Queensland Engineers and Agents Pty Ltd), started by his father in 1948 in Cairns, Queensland as a general engineering company contracting to the mining industry, then diversified. Fry started his apprenticeship as a Fitter and Turner with NQEA.

The Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory contracted NQEA to build a complete ground testing hypersonics test chamber to a design developed by him.

In 2004 NQEA built a nozzle for a scramjet (supersonic combustion ramjet engine) to be tested by the University of Queensland ground test facility, the T4 tunnel. Fry has been designated as an Adjunct Professor of the University's School of Engineering.

Besides his business and scientific interests, Don Fry chairs Australia’s national committee advising the Government of Australia on homelessness.

He is chair of the James Cook University Engineering Advisory Board.

Fry is a recipient of the Institution of Engineers Australia highest National award. He was the inaugural recipient of the Queensland Division Hall of Fame.

Fry has also been inducted into the Queensland University of Technology Hall of Fame for Outstanding Constructors.

He is Patron of the FNQ Independent Living Support Assoc. Inc, a longtime board member of Lifeline Cairns, and has been for 30 years member of the Cairns Salvation Army Advisory Board.

In 2006 he was appointed a special trustee for ensuring the allocation of funds under the federal government's Cyclone Larry assistance package.

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PO Box 173, Deakin, ACT 2600

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Lifeline

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Lifeline provides access to crisis support, suicide prevention and mental health support services.

Somewhere in Australia there is a new call to Lifeline every minute. People call Lifeline’s 24 hour crisis support service 13 11 14 about many things including:

Anxiety
Depression
Loneliness
Abuse and trauma
Physical or mental wellbeing
Suicidal thoughts or attempts
Stresses from work, family or society

Information for friends and family

Lifeline also provides national services and campaigns that promote emotional wellbeing, encourage help seeking, and address suicide prevention and awareness.

Lifeline is a not-for-profit organisation and relies on community support.

Lifeline’s national service programs

Lifeline’s strategic directions focus on three major national service program areas that connect people with care:

Crisis Support - Services that provide immediate support to individuals at times of difficulty in their lives, and support for communities in the recovery of major events.

Suicide Prevention – Services that educate individuals and communities about suicide and offer appropriate support for those people who are at risk of suicide or bereaved by suicide.

Mental Health Support – Services that provide support for people experiencing mental illness and which offer reliable information and self-help resources to empower people to take steps towards maintaining mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Lifeline's Suicide Prevention Strategy

Lifeline believes most suicides are preventable and has developed the Lifeline Suicide Prevention Strategy to inform the public about our suicide prevention work and our vision for a suicide safer future.

In providing and progressing this Strategy, Lifeline is committed to a whole-of-community approach to preventing suicide in which everyone plays a role. Reducing stigma and increasing suicide awareness creates a climate for access to care and provision of care by Lifeline and the wider community.

Lifeline is a leading provider of services for suicide prevention. Our Strategy will guide the continual improvement and expansion of these services to effectively respond to the needs of individuals, families and communities to prevent tragic loss of life by suicide.