Prostitutes have won the right to work from motel rooms in an Australian state after a court ruled that refusing them was discrimination.
The ruling in Queensland has stunned hotel and motel owners, who thought they had a right to decide what sort of businesses were operating from their premises.
A prostitute, identified only as GK, had taken her discrimination case against the Drovers Rest Motel, in the coal-mining town of Moranbah, to the Queensland state Civil and Administrative Tribunal after management refused to rent her a room.
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