Real Choices Australia’s vision is that every secondary school student in Australia has the opportunity to experience positive lifestyle messages and discussion to assist them to make informed and healthy decisions about relationships and sexuality.   The majority of secondary school students are not sexually active, yet few are provided with the information or resources necessary [...]

It is sad that the rhetoric of choice is often used to disguise what could more easily be described as very coercive circumstances for women.   These stories below from a Madison Magazine article in October 2009. Samantha didn’t want to be a single parent and had an abortion at 34. “When I had an abortion, [...]

Comprehensive information about our projects for the upcoming year is available HERE. A donations form is included for you to print, complete and post to us.  Or you can donate online at HERE.

We are very excited to be in the final stages of development of our primary school relationship program and Year 8 relationships program.   Our programs encourage the development of self esteem, critical thinking skills, and responsible decision making.  Initially the programs will be offered by specially trained teams in early 2011, but expect them to [...]

We apologise the time it is taking to get our CDO website up and running again.  In the meantime, you can access information about the different levels of the program here. 

Sometimes it can feel like we are all alone as parents, in our struggles and even in our joys.    With families often so far apart, neighbours often not knowing each, we can feel that there is nobody to share, or even acknowedge the tough times, or the excitement of the great times. We would like [...]

We have some great new pages of information on foetal development, including videos, now available on our site, linked here.

We have been inundated with messages of support for our secondary school’s program, Choices Decisions Outcomes.  Here are just a few of the positive messages of support received, and some of those received by past students, parents and teachers. Feedback from students… It’s made me more knowledgeable Educated me so I can make informed decisions [...]

Media Release Choices Decisions Outcomes program equips young people to make good choices The secondary school’s program, Choices Decisions Outcomes has been the subject of unsubstantiated criticism and misrepresentation over the past few weeks, primarily coming from members of the Greens Party. The Choices Decisions Outcomes relationship program has been offered nationally for more than [...]

Could we be giving more conflicted messages?   In one article there are concerns expressed about the high number of teenage abortions, and the fact that many young women are experiencing unwanted sex, because they ‘didn’t know how to say no’.  The article goes on to quote the National Clinical Director of Marie Stopes International , as saying that children [...]