Holding Ashley Stephen Geelan to account since 2019
Archive of weakly evidenced, poorly supported, or low-quality public claims covered by Geelan Lies.
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
In addition to the lies that Ashley Geelan tells on a daily basis, he commits another journalistic sin. He is the world’s most boring storyteller. Over and over, crap about himself, crap about his Amiga computer in the 1990s, crap about his ham radio. Crap, crap, crap. Ashley genuinely believes that people are interested in […]
Ashley Geelan has continued to breach the cease and desist order issued against him with more online comments on 23/10/2019
Lies are part of Ashley Geelan’s arsenal. At the end of 2018, Ashley put himself in the same league as Brian Naylor (who was a newsreader and TV personality, but no journalist), George Negus, Jana Wendt, Mal Walden, Jennifer Kyte, Jon Faine, Ray Martin, Kerry O’Brien, and Mike Willesee. Brian Naylor was playfully described by […]
Appearing like a common ice addict on The Project in July, 2019, Ashley Geelan had one fairly simply job to do. And he cocked that up. It’s piss-funny. What a media star! PMSL
Can this bloke stoop any lower? It seems so. Parts of this post come to us from public contributions. It is a ad to see Ashley Geelan throw his late mother’s reputation under a bus. Geelan described his mother, Cheryl Anne Mitchell, as a “groupie” of the Fraternity and Valentines. A “groupie” is defined as […]
Ashley Geelan’s reputation continues as the state’s laziest “journalist”. As at Thursday lunchtime (24/10/19), Geelan’s ‘Kinglake Ranges News’ website has not had a Murrindindi news item for eight days. So much for his loud claims that it is the number one local news website, with millions of readers. Not a single local sports result for […]
Once again Ashley Geelan has been caught out on his lies. For years, Ashley has claimed that Leader Newspapers had said he was “the best they ever had”. New information has come to light today, thanks to Ashley and his big mouth. In the past, Ashley has claimed this quote was attributed to Peter Xeni […]