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The Morrison government and the Commonwealth bureaucracy should “step aside entirely” and hand the vaccine rollout to the states and territories 100 per cent, according to Sky News host Chris Smith.

“The vaccine war we witnessed last week, apart from being unedifying, underlined how misguided the Federal Government was, to think they could roll out something, as logistically complicated, as two vaccines, with a second phase soon-after,” Mr Smith said.

Both the Queensland and NSW governments hit out at the federal government for revealing figures which indicated the slow pace of the vaccine rollout was due to the state governments.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian subsequently offered to assist the Commonwealth with the rollout once it had completed its required 300,000 vaccines.

The federal government has since accepted that offer with the NSW government to take on a greater role from this week.

“We're about to see a whole series of new hubs set up, 36 new clinics, including pavilions at Sydney's Olympic Park Showground, and probably, the huge Sydney International Convention Centre,” according to Mr Smith.

“This is the way the UK, Europe and the US are handling the job.

“This is not their forte, states and territories roll out vaccines every year just prior to winter, and they are very good at it. How that wasn't accepted at the get-go, I have no idea.

“It is true, that with Australia's CSL producing a million doses per week, from this week, the slow jab rate will diminish as a headline, but they won't live down how poorly they went, running a project, usually the domain of another entire tier of government.”