Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 10 October, 2021 One obvious sign the neighbours are worried your party is going to get out of hand is when the cops show up, minutes after the noise limit laws kick in. The plods’ arrival is what economists might call a “positive indicator” your party is going swell […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 4 October, 2021 Helicopter parenting: the act of always hovering around your child, so that at the first sign of danger, they can be pulled to safety. Helicopter regulating: The act of hovering around the punch bowl, to control the flow of vodka, to make sure parties never really get […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 3 October, 2021 Almost exactly 20 years ago, a few weeks after September 11, I told my girlfriend that I thought we needed a holiday. “How about New Zealand?” As we sat down for dinner in a noisy restaurant one night, after a long day touring wineries around […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 26 September, 2021 Slowly, it creeps up on you. It spends half a lifetime silently approaching. And then, sometime in your 50s, it comes out of the shadows. And, like a spider landing in your lap when you lower the car’s sun visor at 80kmh, it scares the bejesus out of […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 20 September, 2021 In the coming months, you’ll probably learn something interesting about many of your friends and neighbours. They have a “condition”. Some of them won’t be able to hide the symptoms, though the illness with which they are afflicted doesn’t make them cough, sweat, sneeze or shiver. […]
I know this is a bit cruel. But watching young’uns trying to buy their first home right now is kinda like watching a kitten chase a piece of string. Kitty sees the end of the string. Kitty gets into the crouching position. Then … pounces! By the time fluffball has […]
Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 6 September, 2021 One of the funniest faces anyone can pull is the one that looks like they’ve sucked on a lemon. About a million Australians are going to pull that face this month. They are going to get seriously bloody confused about their superannuation. And it is going […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 5 September, 2021 Sometimes you feel an overwhelming desire to wrest control of an aspect of your life that’s felt not quite right. You’ve been watching on, or maybe deeply involved, for years. Something has consistently pissed you off, or you’ve seen avoidable errors, or the decisions of others is […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 29 August, 2021 It was all in the name of research for this column. But, I swear, now I’m at the point where now I want to kill someone. Specifically, If I had to choose one person, […]
Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 15 August, 2021 I have spent too much of my life taking potshots at various governments and politicians for being “superannuation stupid”. Simply, super is a thing of undeniable beauty. It should be like a siren’s song, instantly entrancing and captivating all who hear just […]
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