$26,000 raised for NBN campaign in Malcolm Turnbull's electorate Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has identified telecommunications as the ideal starting point. Outdated telco rules in cross-hairs Supporters of fibre-to-the-premises broadband are raising money for an advertising campaign in Malcolm Turnbull's electorate to try and convince the Communications Minister to keep Labor's national broadband network (NBN). An online crowd funding group has raised more than $26,000 within two days to fund ads in community newspapers calling on the minister to "build the NBN that Australia is asking for." The project was started by the same group of students that started an online petition on change.org calling on Mr Turnbull to reconsider the Coalition's fibre-to-the-node plan for the "superior" fibre-to-the-premises network. It has attracted more than 266,400 signatures since being launched by Queensland student Nicholas Paine the day after the September 7 election. Mr Turnbull responded with a blog post saying he would not ignore the election result or walk away from one of the Coalition's "most well debated, well understood and prominent policies." Democracy? I don't think so," he wrote on September 12. "While I always welcome more advertising in our local paper, Australians are looking for facts, not spin or rhetoric, on the NBN," Mr Turnbull told Fairfax Media on Friday. While I respect the enthusiasm of those who have contributed to crowd funding this advertising, I know the Wentworth community very well and overwhelmingly they are very keen to find out how much this project is going to cost, in time and dollars, and how a rational Government might go about making the rollout more efficient. Mr Paine has now teamed up with a Sydney student, Alex Stewart, to take the campaign into the real world and was asking for donations to fund an advertisement in the Wentworth Courier. Mr Turnbull holds the seat of Wentworth with a comfortable margin of 17.7 per cent, but the group said it would also advertise in marginal electorates of newly elected Liberal MPs if it raised more than the initial target of $15,000. By 2pm on Friday they had raised more than $26,000 dollars on crowd funding site indiegogo and were accepting donations for nine more days. "If we can fundraise enough to deliver what we've planned, we can show Malcolm Turnbull that the Australian people are not going to give up on this: and that getting into government shouldn't mean closing your doors to voters," Mr Stewart said in a statement on change.org. A full page colour ad in the first ten pages of the Wentworth Courier costs about $9099. The paper has a readership of about 85,000 in Sydney's wealthy eastern suburbs including Woollahra, Vaucluse and Double Bay. Right now, Malcolm Turnbull's conducting a major review of the NBN - it's a critical time where he's thinking through his options. Initially, he only backed fibre-to-the-node, but he's now saying he's open to a range of technologies. This shows he is listening, a little at least, and we have a window to influence his decision," Mr Paine and Mr Stewart wrote on indiegogo. Imagine [Turnbull] waking up and seeing our message - that Australians support an FTTP [fibre-to-the-premises] NBN - on the front of his local newspaper in the middle of his driveway. On the way to the office, it'll be in front of every door he passes, and by the time he gets there -it'll be in thousands of households across his electorate. Before his first appointment, he'll have seen clearly that thousands of Australians are asking for him to get this right. Crowd funding was recently used by technology news website Delimiter to raise more than $2000 to pay for a freedom of information request for the incoming government briefing, known as the Blue Book, on the NBN.