Holding Ashley Stephen Geelan to account since 2019
There is a graph doing the rounds that, at first glance, seems to say something very simple: people who identify as “very liberal” (in Australia can be read as ultra-left leaning) report much higher rates of having received a professional mental-health diagnosis than people elsewhere on the political spectrum. It is tempting to grab a […]
Ashley Geelan can dish out emotional, fact-light reporting. When the same style comes back at him, the glass jaw shows.
Geelan’s VicNews caught copying Judy Clements OAM story VicNews has published a Judy Clements OAM story that, in our view, amounts to blatant plagiarism of the North Central Review / Whittlesea Review’s reporting. The original North Central Review article, “Judy Clements earns OAM”, reported Ms Clements’ Medal of the Order of Australia for service to […]
Ashley Geelan has been telling people that VicNews is his, as if the name arrived with him and belongs to his personal mythology. The public catalogue record says something less convenient. State Library Victoria has a record for VicNews / Victorian Orienteering Association Inc.. It lists the contributor as the Victorian Orienteering Association, the publisher […]
Geelanlies.com is back Geelanlies.com is back online. We paused the site before Geelan’s court appearances because it was right to let the legal process run its course. That pause was not a retreat, and it was not because the issues had gone away. It was a deliberate hiatus while the courts did their work. That […]