“Let us therefore declare, with joy and dignity: we are Romanians and Orthodox Christians,

“helping them contributes to a more accurate record of the Romanian and Orthodox presence and identity in Australia.

“To be Romanian and Orthodox Christian is not only a mystery of the soul, but also a truth that we have a duty to declare,

“The census does not ask how deeply we believe—it asks how clearly we declare our identity where it matters: in the records of a nation.