The Great Orange Water Bottle Imbroglio

In a staggering display of political correctness gone absolutely loopy, a handful of over-sensitive parents of schoolchildren at Catherine McCauley Catholic Primary School in rural Orange, NSW, have vented their anger over a recent Game Council safety promotion, where bright orange re-usable water bottles were handed out to pupils.

The message on the bottles is that if you hunt, wear blaze-orange for your personal safety. Now that certainly is a most contentious and horrible indoctrination of young minds, if you go along with the twisted logic of these antis.

The initial story in the Orange-based Central West Daily has had many responses for readers on both sides of the “debate” and a later follow-up article has targeted the O’Farrell government over this storm in a teacup – or should it be called “a squall in a bottle”.

Marcus O’Dean