The Game Council apparently was considering whether blaze orange should be required to be worn when hunting on private as well as public land in NSW.

This seems to me to be unnecessary. The blaze orange was apparently part of the requirements for insurance for hunters in State forests. This does not mean that it necessarily is assured as a method for increasing safety.

The fundamental cause of hunting accidents does not seem to be stray projectiles hitting unseen hunters but rather failure to correctly identify a target. Whilst it may seem to be commonsense to assume that what you see is what you have, (a realist view of perception) the truth is probably more like what you see and think you have is what you have (a phenomenalist view of perception).

An example would be the bloke who shot someone wearing LED lamps on their head whilst spotlighting. He thought he was seeing the reflected eyes of a deer, but it was not a deer. His expectation led to a perceptual error. This incident did not occur in NSW.

Overall, it does not seem appropriate for orange to be required for private hunting in NSW. Ordinarily, hunting on private land involves limited and known numbers of participants, therefore the need to be visible to unknown hunters does not apply. Secondly, it is probably better if the Game Council restricted its regulatory activities to public land rather than impose further burdens on private land users. Thirdly, I doubt whether any evidence establishes clearly that wearing orange eliminates risk. Fourthly, in some Australian jurisdictions people hunt on public land without mandatory orange, which tends to support the previous point.