Today show hosts Karl Stefanovic and Allison Langdon were forced to cut an interview short with a woman known as 'Bunnings Karen' after she defended her right not to wear a mask in Victoria.

Elizabeth 'Lizzy' Rose appeared on the program Tuesday morning to discuss her coronavirus views, but the hosts were uninterested in them.

As Rose argued that people had a right to make their own choices regarding their health, Langdon quickly cut her off.

'Sorry, what was your medical degree?' Langdon asked.   

Rose then claimed to have had experience as a medic but hasn't worked in the field for about four years. 

"I am not a doctor," she clarified on air. 

"'I am not a scientist but I worked as a medic. Obviously, quite a while ago, not when COVID was around."

"My health comes first." Anti-masker Lizzy believes COVID-19 is bio-chemically engineered and refuses to wear face masks. What are your thoughts on this? #9Today pic.twitter.com/Dgl4zuOjYh

— The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) July 27, 2020

Rose explained that she had no issues wearing the mask previously when attending an eyelash appointment, but had issues when Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews made them mandatory.

"Did you Lizzie know the elderly and aged care homes... now 700 of them affected with COVID, do they have a choice? The answer is no," Stefanovic said. 

"You deliberately went into that place to antagonise workers who are literally just trying to do their bit for the country right now, to protect other people from this killer virus, which it is.

"I can't listen to you anymore," he said as he instructed producers to cut the segment short. 

"It's wrong, I'm sorry. I thought that we would in some way shape or form get to a reasonable excuse as to why she was doing that. Otherwise we wouldn't have got her on." 

Langdon then explained that there was a discussion as to whether or not to give Lizzie air time.

"We had this discussion last night whether we would give her air time. It is important. Bunnings staff members doing the right thing faced with this kind of activity and we felt it was important to hear from her point of view. I back you 100% calling quits on that," Langdon explained.

"Apologies if you are offended," Stefanovic added.

After the Bunnings video went viral around Australia, an adjunct professor of law and criminal justice at the University of South Australia came forward to explain whether or not the masks are infringing on human rights as claimed in the video.

"The executive government under the constitution has every right to make executive decisions," Rick Sarre, adjunct professor, said to the ABC.

"You can't make a decision on the basis of parliamentary debate very, very quickly.

"We'd be in a complete and utter shambles [if that was the case], because how do you then get a Parliament to come back and do something that when the Parliament's in recess, for example?

"So once the government says we have a pandemic and … we're now going to mandate the wearing of masks in our state — of course they can do that.

"That's always premised upon the fact that we are in a state of emergency or we're in a situation that requires good decisive government action.

"So anyone who suggests that has to be parliamentarily debated is speaking nonsense."

He also explained that discrimination on the basis of your clothing doesn't exist.

"In every state and territory we have an equal opportunity or anti-discrimination act," he said.

"You cannot discriminate against the person on the basis of their race, on the basis of their age, on the basis of their gender, on the basis of their sexuality.

"Wearing a mask is not one of those. There's nothing that says you cannot discriminate against me on the basis of my dress."

He said some specific exemptions in some jurisdictions applied for religious attire such as turbans or hijabs, but a face mask is neither of those.