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.