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Sky News host Peta Credlin says if the new National Cabinet can work post-coronavirus it should replace COAG, which has become a vehicle that "amplifies conflict rather than resolves it and allows the blame game to actually get worse".

The National Cabinet - comprising the prime minister and all state and territory leaders - was formed on March 13 in a bid to create a concise and unilateral function of decision making in the battle against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.

Ms Credlin echoed the idea flagged by many in recent days that the National Cabinet could replace COAG (Council of Australian Governments) given it has "got more done in four weeks than COAG'S got done in four years".

She said the idea is "worthy of consideration" as the main difference between the two functions is the National Cabinet is "a room of leaders only focused on decisions that have to be made with point scoring largely left behind".

COAG has essentially become a tool used by the states to "blame the feds whenever anything goes wrong" and claim more money from the commonwealth "is the answer to every problem".

Ms Credlin said the current system may be working now because the prime minister is "sitting at the top of this table with a big fat, open cheque book, and is handling out billions to states".

"The real test will come when and if the prime minister starts to demand the states actually start to take responsibility for what they do, rather than just take whatever they can get from Canberra".

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