"Going forward" (general corporate PR). These words are frequently tacked onto the end of some statement of corporate objectives, or the like. What meaning they add to such a sentence is unclear. Are we to assume that seriously-considered alternatives included "going left", for instance? Is it perhaps pointing out that the temporal flow of events within the company is indeed in sync with the rest of the universe? ...This will help us build better products, going at 65 degrees to local spacetime curvature.
"Solution" (software company PR). First there were programs. Then there was software. Now we are told that what we're actually getting are "solutions". You could have fooled me. If one were sufficiently innocent, one would assume that (a) things presented as solutions actually solved some readily-definable problem, and (b) there is at least a small possibility that it might not involve software. Actual real solutions to having a large credit card debt, for instance, are unlikely to require one to walk into a computer store and purchase a boxed copy of Megacorp Solution 2007.
"Australian values". The mantra for the rise of nationalism in Australia. Well I'm Australian-born and I don't give a rat's arse about Australian values as a general concept. And why should I? I never received the questionnaire asking me what my values were, and to my knowledge no such study has been done. So how can anyone possibly know what Australian values are? Anyone can vomit out a shopping list of patriotic traits if so inclined - their articulation doesn't lend them any credibility. Even if someone were to empirically determine the real values Australians hold, I sincerely doubt they'd be able to distinguish them from the values of humanity in general.
"...is just the beginning". We're told that something "is just the beginning" to make us that little bit more excited without all the bother of explaining why we should be excited. If it really was "just the beginning" then we'd be told what the middle and the end were as well, instead of having someone try to fudge it. It's not "just the beginning", it's all you've got, and you're probably lying about that too.
"-gate". For even the most minute (in fact, especially the most minute) of political scandals, there's always someone waiting to invent a new "-gate" word, as though trying to provoke a comparison to the 1970s Watergate scandal in the US. This is not just about naming scandals. It's form of propaganda - an attempt to paint an event as being much more troubling and controversial than it really should be, so that certain political factions can score points from it. I cringed when the Americans were doing it, and I despair at those in this country who've imported the practice.