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 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. […]

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 West Australian, 9 August, 2021                                                                     Watching the never-ending generational warfare on property prices between Boomers and Millennials can […]

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 12 July, 2021 Want to put on a smile? Go look at your super balance. I’ll wait. Hey! How good was that performance? Wet blanket moment: Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen again in your lifetime. It might, but it’s unlikely. Traditional balanced super funds were likely […]

  Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 26 July, 2021 Don’t you love some of those cosmic laws? You know, the ones that sound like they’re laws of physics, but aren’t. Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong, will”. Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for it’s completion”. And the Law […]

  Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 28 June, 2021 “You’ve never been richer” says the Government’s chief statistician. And he’s quoting stats, so you know it’s 100 per cent fact. (Oh, except for when they need to belatedly revise things.) Given the financial year we farewelled last month, that would have been a gutsy prediction […]

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 31 May, 2021                   Kids always seem to forget their parents were once their age. And every excuse they try to pull on is one their oldies have previously used themselves. “Oh, DebtBoy. You haven’t done your homework because you haven’t had […]