Test rookie Sam Carter says the Wallabies pack needs to lift in every area for Saturday's Eden Park clash with New Zealand, despite acquitting themselves well last weekend. The Australian forwards held their own in both set pieces and breakdown play against rugby's benchmark pack in the 12-12 stalemate at a wet ANZ Stadium on Saturday.

Asked which areas they needed to improve for the return clash in Auckland, Carter said: "Overall. In pretty much everything, the lineout, the scrum, around the breakdown.

"If we can get one or two per cent better than our opposite number that we're playing on the weekend, then that generates a big result. They are never going to lay down and give in to you, so you've got to confront them physically and get up there and make a difference in the team."

Carter, who was playing just his second Test, felt the Wallabies lineout stood up well against their much vaunted New Zealand counterparts.

"I thought our drill was pretty good, we played to the conditions," Carter said. "It was quite wet out there and I thought we did quite well. We'd only been together for a week coming into the camp into that Test match and I thought we handled it pretty well. There were a couple of slip ups, but that's bound to happen at Test match level."

He felt the heavily scrutinised and often maligned Wallabies scrum stood up well to the formidable All Blacks eight.

"I think we did pretty well. The conditions really didn't help us. It was a pretty slippery deck," he said. "But I think for most of the night we held our own. We delivered some pretty clean ball."

Unlike virtually all of his colleagues, Carter hasn't got bad memories of Eden Park where Australia haven't won a Test since 1986.

"I've only played there once and we beat the Blues [in Super Rugby]," Carter said.