Cliche of the Week 9 – Safe Haven

Working families seeking safe haven from election-speak should be moving forward.

That's the same as going forward, an example of fuzzy middle-management jargon infecting the media.

Nothing like an election to bring out imprecise hip phrases. Julia Gillard's use of moving forward in the first two days of the election campaign put usage in the hundreds, but slipped away when the cliche was recognised as such.

In non-election weeks, the phrase appears in reporting in Australia about 80 times a...