Her biological father died in a Nazi Labour camp during the German occupation of Hungary in WWII.
[1] Married and divorced, Varga lived with her partner and writer Anne Coombs in the Southern Highlands of NSW.
When their daughter chose to invest her inheritance in a foundation to help those who, like her own family, have been forced into asylum, she and her partner Anne Coombs named it Becher.
[3] Together with Anne Coombs and Helen McCue, Varga founded Rural Australians for Refugees (RAR) in 2001.
[4] In 1974 Varga was one of a group of volunteers including Kay Ferrington, Joan Killorn, Betty Pybus and Edith Warburton who set up the Bonnie Women's Refuge at 260 Burns Road, Bonnyrigg in Sydney's South West.