My name is Katalin Ilosvay-Egyed. I arrived in Sydney at the end of September 1973 with my husband, Gusztáv Ilosvay.
I became involved in Hungarian community life in Sydney in 1982 through the Hungarian School in Flemington. I took my three-year-old son to kindergarten there every week, and later to the school. In 1987, I enrolled my second child as well. At the school, I first served as secretary and later as president of the Parents’ Board of Trustees, and subsequently as principal for six years. During this time, we organized summer school camps and held the first graduation ball.
When my sons became scouts, I continued to support the work of the Scouts’ Board of Trustees as a scout parent.
In 1992, together with my husband, we founded Hungarian Radio Mozaik Sydney, a weekly two-hour Hungarian-language radio program broadcast from the Ryde Regional Radio 2RRR 88.5 FM studio. The program continues to be broadcast to this day.
Hungarian Radio Mozaik became a member of the Hungarian Council of NSW, where I serve as its representative. As a program editor, I have participated in Hungarian community events and national commemorations, reporting on them in our broadcasts. I have also met visitors from Hungary and conducted interviews with them.
Between 2013 and 2017, I served as President of the Hungarian Council of NSW. During this time, I maintained strong relations with Hungarian diplomatic missions and attended most Hungarian community events and all national commemorations. As president, I represented our association at the annual Hungarian Diaspora Council. I also served as a mentor to the Sydney-based scholar of the Körösi Csoma Sándor Program when the program first began, and I continued to take on this mentorship each year.
In November 2022, I was elected president again and served the Hungarian community until November 2025. Since then, I have continued my work within the association as Vice President.
I remain active in the Hungarian community as a radio editor. I also serve as secretary of the Hungarian Federation of Australia, where I represent the Hungarian Council of NSW.