The important work of midwives around the globe will be celebrated by Charles Sturt University (CSU) – a key educator of the health professions on International Midwives Day 2010, Wednesday 5 May. At CSU in Wagga Wagga, the day will be celebrated with a meeting of over 100 University midwifery graduates, nursing academics and midwifery practitioners and the launch of the book, No Births on Monday written by Wagga Wagga midwife Dr Mavis Gaff-Smith. Launching the book is one of the key developers of the postgraduate midwifery program at CSU, Dr Joanne Gray. Dr Gray is currently Director of Midwifery Education at the University of Technology Sydney. CSU is celebrating 20 years of educating midwifery students. Through its School of Nursing, Midwifery and Indigenous Health, the University offers a Postgraduate Diploma of Midwifery by distance education to Registered Nurses in both metropolitan and rural areas.