Bob Katter says he was unable to get into a Tamworth pub at the weekend for failing to prove his COVID-19 vaccination status.

The Kennedy MP said he was meeting with local leaders.

Despite being fully vaccinated, he said he doesn’t have a smart phone of the Service NSW app.

“I’ve had both of my COVID vaccinations, but I don’t have a smart phone so I can’t check-in using the state government app, but I did give them options to verify,” he said in a statement.

“However, the local media and police was called.

“This is un-Australian. We have a right to associate and assemble.”

LNP Senator James McGrath predicted he was the only federal politician without a smart phone.

“It would be very rare,” he told Scott Emerson.

“Probably the only one, if he doesn’t have a smart phone.”

He described him as “old school”.

“I mean that in a nice way!”

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