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Premium Content  Former Queensland Young Australian of the Year and Street Swags founder Jean Madden has been slammed in a scathing tribunal decision as a liar and a trickster whose appalling actions may amount to criminal conduct. Details of shock allegations against Ms Madden can be revealed after an extraordinary Fair Work Commission case, including that she used $14,000 of the charity s money to pay her personal lawyer and gave her boyfriend a $130,000 a year job. Fair work Commissioner Jennifer Hunt said she felt compelled to lay bare all the charity founder s conduct, which also included awarding her boyfriend a $528,000 contract to build cabins for homeless people.
A charity founder and former Queensland Young Australian of the Year has been likened to a notorious fictional character in a scathing judgment suggesting possible criminal conduct.