Sydney is the latest city to recommend citizens prepare and maintain an emergency kit. The Go Bag seems a little light on gear to me, but there's nothing to stop a motivated individual from including additional useful items like a knife (and other tools and equipment that may be useful in an emergency).

Then again, are the citizens allowed to have knives in Australia?

I understand that the Aussies are a bit more realistic about the carriage of knives than other members of the Commonwealth. But I saw some noticiable lacks.

A water bottle per person?
No food.
No sleep/shelter items.
Rx meds were buried in with the FAK items.

This looks like a list of what you need to walk to an evacuation point or shelter, more than anything else.

Its a start. Even a little prep, spread over hundreds of people, makes a big difference.

So true.

If 10% are well prepared the other 90% still hurt 100% of them most of the time

If 100% are prepared to some degree that helps everyone and makes life THAT much easier.

But that is why I have my concerns about their list.

I honestly believe that for most people, a mediocre kit, which I think after reexamining the Sydney list is, are in some ways worse off becuase they think they are properly equipped. That is an overnight bag with a bottle of water, thats all it is- it isn't going to amount to much other than to guide you to a shelter/evacuation point, but it isn't going to reduce the strain on logistics or give you self sufficiency for any period of time if all the log plans go to poo.

At the very least, I would want to see them list 3-4 liters of water, rather than "a bottle of water", per person. "A bottle"- 20oz? 500ml? A liter? A gallon? How big? "A bottle" is a nice little wiggly bit that says a lot of nothing while sounding good.

It's like the difference between a toy hard hat and a real one- if I'm on top of a three story building tossing rocks over the edge, which one do you want people to have? People who don't know any better will think the toy one will work and try to cross the dangerous area and get knocked on the head. Someone without a hard hat of any kind will look at 1" dia granite hail and decide to wait for my day to get better or find a way around me.