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Peculiarly, the headlnie makes it sound like coles and westpac are battling against greed.

This is not the case.

You seem to be very unecessarily angry at things. Everything ok at home?

I'll be honest, kids riding bikes across golf courses is not something I'm going to worry about.

I am. I don't get the correlation. Your explaination didn't clarify matters

...but what on earth has that to do with the article in question?

That's not accurate at all The 500w have only been legal briefly due to a loophole. They were never meant to be so.

So to posit your position back at your - a 500w bike won't do what I need, why can't I have a 1000w?

what are you even trying to say here?

Well OP is saying that legal ebikes will be insufficiently powerful for what they need. They don't have a car, so assuming they don't want one they could look at a moped, a motorbike, scooter bikes, all of which will provide more power and be street legal.

I'm in Victoria, where we're already limited to 250w and have been the entire time, so I'm seeing a lot of arguments against bike regulations fall flat on their face.

It really is sfrustrating seeing page after page get a fisher-price makeover designed for mobile devices. People are using apps for those

It really reads like you're going to the hardware store for orange juice.

If a bike isn't doing what you need / want it to, then the answer is not a bike.

Right wing parties feed on fear: the fear of losing what you have.

Millenials have had no chance to build anything to lose. They're not self contained fiefdoms jealously guarding Whats Mine Is Mine, they rely heavily on social groups and community.