The annual conference held by final-year speech pathology students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) will be a celebration and a farewell. The School of Community Health is celebrating the speech pathology course’s tenth anniversary while also saying farewell to Associate Professor Lindy Mcallister, its founding academic. Professor Mcallister joined CSU in 1997 to set up the speech pathology course, which has educated professionals particularly for practice in inland Australia. Professor Mcallister is taking up the position of deputy dean of medicine and health sciences at the University of Queensland. Guest speakers at the conference include Professor David Battersby, who was Dean of CSU’s Faculty of Health Studies and Head of the University’s Albury-Wodonga and Dubbo Campuses before becoming Vice-Chancellor of University of Ballarat, and Ms Claire Salter, a practicing speech pathologist from Katherine in the Northern Territory. This year’s conference, to run from Wednesday 22 to Friday 24 October, will address speech and language problems in older and younger people.