Federal MP Bob Katter was refused entry to a NSW country pub because he doesn't have a smartphone to show his Covid vaccine passport.
The outspoken Queenslander said he didn't even know what the ServiceNSW app was and he usually entered venues by asking them to call Parliament House to verify his vaccination status.
'I guess you can argue that my staff should have worked it (the digital vaccine certificate) out, but I don't have one of these modern phones,' Mr Katter told the ABC.
He said he asked staff at the Tamworth Hotel in state's mid-north west to call Parliament House or his government minders but they declined.
'The person just said: 'out'. Very abrupt,' he said.
Mr Katter was spotted leaving the Tamworth Hotel at Tamworth on Sunday (pictured) as staff watch on
But Mr Katter, who uses a flip-style phone with plastic keys, added he was aware it was also acceptable to show a paper print-out of vaccination history instead of a digital copy.
He said had left that in his luggage as he travels a lot.
The member for Kennedy likened refusing him entry for not showing his vaccine passport to a ban on public assembly, but admitted the pub was 'well within its rights'.
Proof of two Covid-19 vaccinations will no longer be required under government rules once the 95 per cent vaccination rate in NSW is met, estimated to be December 15.
But businesses will still have the choice to enforce the rule as a condition of entry to their establishments or offices.
Mr Katter's staff said he supported vaccines but has also spoken at so-called 'freedom rallies' in his home state.
The maverick MP was spotted being shown the door at the Tamworth pub on Sunday with a masked employee waving him goodbye.
Mr Katter was also seen chatting with a member of the police force who attended the Tamworth railway station on Sunday afternoon after reports people were 'drinking in an alcohol free zone' (pictured)
Mr Katter then spoke with a group of people who were drinking at the train station - though he was not drinking himself - until they were told to move on by officers.
He said the people he was talking to
