IMessage problems: Email instead of mobile number?

Someone please help me ! i was told to fill out this and im not sure how to ! im in asutralia NSW and i need help with this or just help with gettting my imeesage to send as my number...

It should have picked up your mobile number anyway once you activated your service, then turn iMessage on.  If it says "waiting for activation" there are some other things you could try, including:
Go to Settings>General>Date & Time, make sure Set Automatically is set to On.
Be sure you are able to send and receive sms messages (activation sends a "silent" sms message to the activation server)
Change the DNS servers on your wireless router to Google's Public DNS servers (see https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using).  After successfully activating, you might want to change it back as I've read this may degrade your internet service somewhat outside of the U.S.
Call your carrier to make sure they aren't blocking premium texts or third party texts (thereby blocking the required sms to the activation server)

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