Commentator on ACT Party's alternative budget

David Seymour has offered his party's own budgetary roadmap to help the country find its way out of the economic woods. The ACT Party leader's plan offers a mix of ideas, from gradually raising the retirement age - something the two major parties have steadfastly shied away from - to easing the tax burden and lifting defence spending. ACT also wants to do away with a number of the country's boutique government agencies such as the Human Rights Commission. How is this likely to play our with the ACT faithful and, perhaps more importantly, fence-sitters? Franks Ogilvie senior consultant Brigitte Morten spoke to Susie Ferguson.