The head of the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council says Australia is outstripping New Zealand on the economic comeback from Covid-19, and we need to assemble an 'A team' on the economy if we do not want to get left further behind. Fraser Whineray says while New Zealand is tracking well on medical matters, Australia is doing better managing both the health and economic fallout from the pandemic. He has written to Jacinda Ardern asking to establish a Recovery Taskforce and Reform Commission like the one Australia has set up, headed by a business leader with the same influence and access to the Prime Minister as the Director General of Health.