On Sunday 23rd April be scared, very scared.

The question I have is why on earth are we at least 10years behind most other countries in introducing this

Because not too much gnarly stuff happens here?

It seems a bit pointless to me, we don't have many urgent life-threatening events where an alert could help. But not particularly harmful unless the govt starts using it to spam us excessively. Depending how distracting it is, it could do more harm than good.

It seems a bit pointless to me, we don’t have many urgent life-threatening events where an alert could help.

Which presumably means that you won't receive many alerts, if any.

Why does that make it seem a bit pointless? Almost all fire alarms are installed in buildings which will never accidentally catch fire, does that make them a bit pointless?