Julie's car wash meant everything to her employees. Then she had to shut it down

Julie McCracken didn't want to shut down her car wash business on the main street of Toowoomba, west of Brisbane - she had to.

The car wash was part of Julie's NDIS registered organisation Community Access Care and meant everything to employees.

For four-and-a-half years, it was Mark's reason to get up every morning.

"I enjoyed every single moment to get independent," he said.

"I was living on my own, you know, paying my rent.

"We were on good money as well, we weren't on low money, we were on $31 an hour."

But that was taken away when Julie discovered their workplace wasn't safe.

"Every time it would rain, water would come down the walls," she said.

"There was a skylight in the toilet. Each time it would rain that would flood.

"We could actually see mould coming through the walls."

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