Holding Ashley Stephen Geelan to account since 2019
An email was long on threats and short on facts Ashley Geelan has now tried a new line with Geelan Lies: dress up a threatening email as if it came with the weight of Victoria Police and Corrections behind it. The message opens with the claim that Geelan Lies is “under investigation”, supposedly at the […]
Yes, Geelan Lies uses AI. That is not the scandal. Geelan Lies uses AI regularly. There is no mystery in that and no point pretending otherwise. The funny part is that even with AI in the workflow, Geelan Lies is producing cleaner, more careful, more accountable journalism than Ashley Geelan manages at VicNews. That should […]
Ashley Geelan’s membership problem Ashley Geelan likes borrowed credibility. A logo here, a badge there, a line in an email signature saying “Member MEAA, LINA & IFJ.” It looks tidy. It looks professional. It is meant to tell the reader: this is a journalist with standing. The problem is that membership claims are not decoration. […]
There is a special kind of comedy in Ashley Geelan calling himself a “local correspondent”. Local to where, exactly? Because Kinglake does not seem to remember him as a trusted local newsman. It remembers the mess. It remembers the fights. It remembers the threats, the dramas, the online carry-on, and the long-running habit of inserting […]
Ashley Geelan’s Victorian News misses Victoria’s biggest political story Jacinta Allan has been dumped as Victorian Premier. Ben Carroll has been sworn in. Labor has knifed its leader months out from an election. A royal commission into the construction sector is now on the table. So where is Ashley Geelan? For a man running a […]
This is opinion and commentary, not a medical diagnosis. The point is not that Ashley Geelan has a clinical condition. The point is that his own public Bluesky posts show a familiar pattern: he keeps placing himself at the centre of events, uses personal history as authority, and turns online attention into the product. Ashley […]
Ashley Geelan has produced another large claim and, once again, the evidence cupboard is bare. This time the story is that the Federal Police are supposedly after him because he posted about Antoinette Lattouf, ABC Radio Sydney, and what he calls “Zionist lobbyists”. In one post he writes that Federal Police “now work for and […]
This is opinion and commentary based on Ashley Geelan’s own public Bluesky posts. It treats his brothel story as his claim, not as an independently proven event. Ashley Geelan has now decided that his media-branded Bluesky account is the right place to tell the public that he went to a brothel at 25. That is […]
Victorian News has published an AAP story headed “New laws to force tech giants to unmask online trolls”. The story reports Premier Jacinta Allan’s announcement that Victoria will draft laws giving VCAT “demasking” powers over anonymous accounts accused of online vilification, while also lowering the legal threshold for families suing social media and AI platforms […]
This article is based on Bluesky posts from victoriannews.com.au dated 19 July 2026 and public education-history records. Ashley Geelan’s Bluesky account spent 19 July 2026 attacking Neil Mitchell, 3AW, KIIS FM, Kyle Sandilands, ARN and commercial radio standards. Media criticism is fair game. What is not fair game is using a media-branded account to publish […]
Ashley Geelan has a favourite move. When he dislikes someone, he does not merely argue with them. He reaches for the same small pile of labels: Nazi, neo-Nazi, cooker, racist, grifter, dickhead. Sometimes the target is a politician. Sometimes it is a media figure. Sometimes it is Elon Musk. Sometimes it is a whole class […]
Ashley Geelan has spent years writing as if crime is something that happens somewhere else, committed by someone else, and observed by him from a safe moral distance. On Wednesday morning, he put something very different on Bluesky. In a public thread from the Geelan Mitchell Media account at @victoriannews.com.au, Geelan described buying a packet […]
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 […]
At Geelan Lies we are very concerned about the unfolding crisis at the housing commission house in Reservoir. Geelan appears to be quickly returning to his old ways and is likely to find himself with a custodial sentence very soon. Our question is directed on this occasion at Kerry Ann. We know Kerry Ann to […]
Geelan Lies understands that Ashley Geelan is attempting to fight charges of stalking, harassment, threats to kill, breach of bail and breach of community correction order. This information has come to light as part of legal proceedings which took place at the Heidelberg Magistrates Court on 7th Jan 2020. Geelan appears to be trying to […]
It appears that Ashley Geelan has been up to his old tricks again. The same tricks that led him to a stint in Fulham prison a few weeks ago. We at Geelan Lies understand there is an intervention order against Geelan mentioning the name “Long” in any way. Geelan has sought and been approved the […]
Tomorrow (7/1/2020) Ashley Stephen Geelan is due to appear before the Heidelberg Magistrates Court on multiple charges including multiple bail breaches, breaches of intervention order and stalking. We at Geelan Lies also understand that Geelan will face charges related to threats to kill amongst others. We hope that Geelan receives a fair trial and the […]
Ashley Geelan’s Kinglake Ranges News blog has nosedived into oblivion. Google Analytics say that traffic to Geelan’s blog plummeted by 54.03 per cent in October. This follows a similar slump in September. According to SimilarWeb and Google Analytics, Geelan’s website total traffic was 176 visits a day, i.e. 5,470 for the entire month. There was an […]
UPDATE: We have recently received information from a reliable source that Geelan is in fact not a guest of Her Majesty. It appears that Geelan is on bail with strict conditions around his online activities. We will leave the rest of this article live for transparency. We got it wrong. The team at Geelan Lies […]
The team at Geelan Lies has been quiet for the past few days as an unpleasant legal situation has played out for Ashley Geelan. Geelan is no stranger to the law and this week his rants, abuse and personal attacks seemed to have caught up with him. As published in The Local Paper on 04/11/2019: […]
Ashley Geelan has selected the wrong enemy. Geelan used his Kinglake Ranges News blog to malign the reputation of Craig Lloyd, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Murrindindi Shire Council. Mr Lloyd, a former policeman, has a hard-won and impeccable reputation in Victoria’s local government arena. Geelan’s posts include wrongful allegations that people connected with […]
It is as if Ashley Geelan fears that the authorities are about to raid the Housing Commission residence at Reservoir that he shares with his common law wife. It is as if he is concerned that his computer drives will be seized, and the files thereon used against him in multiple potential prosecutions. A perfect […]
Ashley Geelan was caught out telling more lies back in 2015. His posts can still be seen in the public forum for the Reckon accounting software group. Geelan represented that he was an important ABC on-air presenter, and made threats that he would use the ABC Twitter account to publicise unfavourable comments about the company’s […]
Ashley Geelan found genuine hatred from fellow ham radio operators, as far back as 2004. One fellow operator told an Internet news group: “Unfortunately in recent times Ashley has suffered the collapse of the Geelan empire which included the closing down of his fantastic Yahoo email group and the Australian Communications Authority raiding his house […]
Amidst the tragedy of the Black Saturday fire in which so many Kinglake people died, there is a speckle of dark local humour. Locals smile at how Ashley Geelan, at every opportunity, describes himself as a local hero, with details of how he saved lives and buildings in the 2009 tragedy. One of the Kinglake […]
Ashley Geelan conducted a malicious campaign on 27/10/2017 against a Kinglake businessman (name withheld), with allegations that superannuation contributions had not been paid to staff. In his usual coward punch mode, Geelan withdrew his blog report and ‘Geelan Media’ social media posts, as soon as he was challenged. “He rang me and said this is […]
Ashley Geelan’s Kinglake Ranges News blog is publishing fake ad links for get-rich-quick bitcoin scams. The advertisements above Geelan’s masthead are links supposedly to a news.com.au (News Corp) website, but actually go to a domain that promotes investments in cryptocurrency. It is entirely Geelan’s choice whether to include these advertisements on his website or not. […]
Ashley Geelan received some good advice from a respected Kinglake man, Anthony McDonald (02/06/2019): “Go collect trolleys for Woolies, you’ll never been a journalist.” Geelan rejected the excellent advice from Mr. McDonald. Pushing a shopping trolley, even on flat ground, would be too much like hard work for a dole bludger like Geelan. At the […]
Ashley Geelan went orgasmic this month when he discovered that a local library had copies of his school newspaper from the early 1990s. Geelan compared the discovery to having sex. Ashley thought this inconsequential find, from 25 years ago, gave him exclusive world-wide rights to the name ‘Vic News’ in 2019. Whilst Geelan was having […]
Ashley Geelan and his common law wife have been on a tear lately, accusing everyone that enters their tiny minds of creating the Geelan Lies website. In his latest episode of alcohol and drug fuelled harassment, Geelan accuses a local resident of being behind the website and also of abusing a disabled child. This is […]
On Tuesday (29/10/2019), Ashley Geelan registered a business name at his Housing Commission address at <Address redacted, Ed.>, Reservoir. Centrelink, which administers Austudy and Newstart payments, takes a keen interest in businesses being run by welfare payment recipients. The Victorian Government’s Department of Health and Housing requires that a tenant, resident or household member obtains […]
The results are in! To say they are overwhelming is an understatement! Out of a total of 121 votes, 117 responses indicated that Ashley Geelan is NOT welcome in Kinglake. Only four votes indicated the other way. The team at Geelan Lies has determined that based on IP address data that these four responses were […]
There was a time (specific date TBC) when Ashley Geelan was blind drunk at the Kinglake Pub and attempted to negotiate a steak sandwich whilst being half asleep and close to unconscious. A local man in the pub was talking to someone else up at the bar, when Geelan tapped the man on the back […]
Ashley Geelan believes that insulting a Kinglake pioneer in her eighties is part of being a local journalist. All other reporters believe that being a local news gatherer is about community service, encouraging local projects, and fostering residents with their good works. Geelan also declares himself as the hero of the Black Saturday fires in […]
Information has come to the attention of the team at Geelan Lies of a very disturbing altercation between Ashley Geelan and the local constabulary at Kinglake. During one of his many arrests by Victoria Police in Kinglake, Geelan lost the plot and decided that he didn’t want the local coppers anywhere near him. At this […]
Ashley Geelan cannot stop from making a fool of himself and from potentially getting in further trouble with the law. We received another message on Sunday morning (27/10/2019) from Geelan at 10:22am from a Swiss IP address: 195.176.3.20 The content of the message was: Geelan is going to name you as the publisher of Geelan […]
Despite claiming via a Facebook group post last week that our quality content didn’t bother him, Geelan’s embarrassing attempts to contact the team here at Geelan Lies have backfired stupendously on Kinglake’s exiled village idiot. We received two messages on Saturday afternoon (26/10/2019) from Geelan, who used a poorly disguised alias as Pete Smith (Peter […]
How popular is Ashley Geelan and his behaviour amongst Kinglake locals? Robbie Tucknott wrote to Geelan via Facebook on 04/09/2019: You have single handedly seen the loss of almost 100 members from this group in under a fortnight.
What do Kinglake people really think about Ashley Geelan? Respected Black Saturday survivor, Anthony McDonald, summed it up in a Facebook post from a few months ago (02/06/2019): “You’re the most untrustworthy person living in Melbourne. A joke, a thief and a liar.”
Kinglake blogger Ashley Geelan was again caught telling ‘porkies’, according to a report in The Local Paper this year (08/02/09). Ashley Geelan went on the internet, claiming Leader newspaperman Peter Xeni had described Geelan in 1994 as the “best work experience student we’ve ever had”. Xeni said this is not true. Xeni did not even […]
When Ashley Geelan started his Kinglake Ranges News blog, he made the big promise of a 24/7 news service for local people. Now that Ashley no longer lives in Kinglake, but about 50km away in Reservoir, he seems to have lost all interest in the people of 3757 and 3763. Perhaps he never had any […]
The following is from a new first-time contributor: The following article appeared on Ashley Geelan’s blog on 28/08/2017. It was written retrospectively and simply fabricated as filler for his website. More lies. The goal posts were installed on 11/03/2017. Geelan’s article was posted some five months later in August the same year. Ben Duhig was […]
Telling lies is a large part of Ashley Geelan’s criminal life. His priors include theft; a lack of respect for other people’s property. A magistrate found proven the allegation that Ashley Geelan lifted money (not his) from the cash register at Kinglake Pub. Ashley was caught on CCTV, pinching $50 from the till. Ashley had […]
On 11/4/2019, Ashley Geelan posted on Twitter: “I don’t do drugs and only drink light beer (0.08% AV) or non-alcoholic beer (0.01% AV).” Yeah, sure, Ashley. In other posts, Ashley Geelan says he has been smoking marijuana since age 14. In other posts, Ashley Geelan often talks about drinking full-strength beer on a daily basis. […]
Ashley Geelan claims exclusive intellectual property rights to the name “Vic News”, based on his father Graeme getting a library classification number for a Montmorency school newspaper, back in the 1990s. The library classification then went into disuse for more than 20 years. Any proposition that Geelan has intellectual property or commercial rights to the […]
Ashley Geelan is two-faced when it comes to racism. On 23/10/2019, Geelan posted a cringe-worthy virtue signalling tweet: “What is this racism thingy? Not how I was raised. Fat, skinny, black blue, white, green or purple, First Nations, Maori, Asian, Yankee. There’s only one race. The human race. We all belong to it.” Ashley must […]