The questions about the country they were born in, the language, the origin and the religious affiliation are the four main elements that the Macedonians in Australia should have dedicated more attention to on the census forms. The Census in Australia officially ends Tuesday when the electronic filling of forms closes and when the printed forms are handed over.

The Australian-Macedonian Human Rights Committee identified the questions that are important to the Macedonian community and carried out a campaign on how these questions should be appropriately answered. The Committee advised Macedonian citizens to write Macedonia in the column as the answer to the question “What country were you born in?” The Committee advised those who were born in Aegean or Pirin Macedonia, not to write Pirin or Aegean Macedonia but Bulgaria or Greece. In this way, it would be emphasized that there are Macedonians outside the border of the Republic of Macedonia. Macedonians in Australia, are especially told that the answer “Greece”, for example, does not mean that they declare themselves to have Greek ethnic origin. The mutual descent in the census form has a special question which they could answer with “Macedonian ethnic origin”.