ride? I'm just throttling my 2 stroke up and down in the backyard for hours for no reason.

We have a neighbour (in outer-suburban Melbourne who complained to the council about our other neighbour who’s kid wants to one day play NBA.

As a result of this, every other surrounding house started bouncing basketballs for all hours during the weekends? Just to spite them.

This is also the lady who complains to council about leaves from her neighbours trees falling into her pool, but refuses to get a pool cover for aesthetic reasons and complained about a house on the hill being visible from her back yard.

That would come under "Electric power tools" with the same restrictions.

Then you need to man-up and buy a proper one

You can run it anytime provided that the noise at the border of the property doesn't exceed limits set by the local council. In the event of a neighbour complaint council will come out and measure it

There's no way I'm turning the aircon fully off on a 30° night with another 40+ day predicted for the following. I do also have a medical need though.

The reason you can’t go off-grid in suburbia is because you need to own a generator to work as a backup in case your off-grid system goes off-line.

The problem is that you can’t have a generator within a specified distance from a permanent dwelling, which is conveniently more than the size of a typical suburban block.

This is despite modern generators being practically silent.