After the initial speeches given by the Consul-General of the Czech Republic Mrs Zuzana Slováková, Governor of NSW H.E. the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, and the Honourable Chris Rath MLC on behalf of the NSW Minister for Multiculturalism, Barbora Baronová and Amber Gaden, Managing Director of Tatra Offroad Trucks Australia, made some introductory remarks about the literary and photographic project that came about out of the collaboration of Czech authors Barbora Baronová and Dita Pepe.

The literary and photographic project „Voices of Women“ presents the extraordinary and inspiring stories of contemporary women from Australia and the Czech Republic. A profound example of one of these stories is that of Mrs Olga Horáková, one of the last remaining Holocaust survivors in Australia – who was born in former Czechoslovakia and emigrated to Australia in 1949, where she found her new home.

The portraits of many Czech women were displayed as part of the project - including film documentarists Olga Sommerová and Helena Třeštíková, journalist Petra Procházková and sociologist Marcela Linková, to name a few.

The event was made possible by the generous financial contribution of JAC Group, Tatra Offroad Trucks Australia and European Beer & Liquor Importers (EBL). 

Title image: (from the left) Photographer Dita Pepe, Consul-General of the Czech Republic Zuzana Slováková, Governor of NSW H.E. the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Managing Director of Tatra Offroad Trucks Australia Amber Gaden and author of the „Voices of Women“ project Barbora Baronová.