Currently, we can only dream of having such cycling systems in place. Canberra comes closest to the Netherlands in having planned-for bike paths in many parts of the city from its early days. In most of our other cities it is difficult to impossible to do because of the road and street design and bike paths can only be developed in small sections of cities. I think you'd find the same problem in many European cities. You are very lucky to have such a practical, and community-minded (and flat) country which is so ideal for cycling.

Its not really fair to compare public transport in Australia to other nations. Europe for example has ~200 people per km2, Australia has 3. It's horrifically inefficient public transport due to the small user volume and large distance covered

P.S. my kid has his own bike, so he safely cycles to school if I'm sick or just don't feel like cycling with him. I usually cycle with him in the morning though: it's nice and refreshing before the work starts. We can chat on the way, and we have a tradition to look for cats and say it's good when we find any along the way. Lemme maybe take a photo along the way and post it, so taht it's not just empty words.