The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) will be scrapped and replaced with National Cabinet meetings with a specific focus on creating jobs, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced.
Key points:
- National Cabinet will continue to meet once the coronavirus pandemic ends
- State and territory leaders will meet monthly in the future
- Prime Minister says the new structure will be less bureaucratic
"COAG is no more," Scott Morrison said.
"It will be replaced by a completely new system."
Mr Morrison said the success of National Cabinet, which was formed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, proved remote tele-meetings could be productive.
The Prime Minister said the new structure would mean state and territory leaders would be able to communicate more regularly and "with less paperwork".
"It's a much more flexible way of working … it gets rid of so much of the formalities and staging that is around these events," Mr Morrison said.
"We want to streamline those endless meetings so we can bring it back to one focus: creating jobs out of the back of this crisis.
"We think that will ensure Australians get better government, more focused government, at a state and federal level."
COAG was established in 1992 as a forum for state and territory leaders to work with the Federal Government.
It was criticised for being too bureaucratic, something Mr Morrison said he did not think would happen with National Cabinet.
While COAG usually meets twice a year, National Cabinet will meet monthly once the pandemic is over, but will continue to meet fortnightly until then.
Mr Morrison said the meetings during the COVID-19 crisis had given leaders the opportunity to work together in a way that had not been possible before.
"I mean, on the night before, every treasurers and leaders meeting I have been to, there is a get-together and that is the best conversation you ever have because you're genuinely talking about the issues you need to and that's how National Cabinet has operated," he said.
"We've been able to find that candour and collegiality in that new format."
Another important feature of the new structure is that it will operate under the same rules as Federal Cabinet, which will mean greater levels of "security of documents, process and procedure".
"Having the groups operate like a fair-dinkum cabinet has been really important," the Prime Minister said.
"It enables [leaders] to have these discussions without sort of lifting the veil."
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