A Brisbane barber shop that refused to cut a woman's hair has blamed its lease conditions for turning her away.
Vivien Houston has told the ABC she regularly went to Jimmy Rod's Barber shop at The Gap Village Shopping Centre but was recently told they wouldn't serve her because she was a woman, news.com.au reports.
The shop's managing director James O'Brien says the business isn't to blame and a new lease with management stipulates women can't be served there so as to avoid competition within the centre's hair salons.
The case has stunned the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties.