NBN: Turnbull's answer to broadband problems? Live somewhere else

Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has indicated with the most clarity I think I’ve seen on how he views the issues surrounding broadband in Australia. It’s not a pretty solution, unless you’re independently wealthy. Which I suppose he is.
Julia Keady is (as per her website) the founder of X Factor Consulting, which sounds like it could be an advice business for aspiring singers, but instead is (again, as per her website) a ” personal content marketing partner.”
Which presumably means she knows a little bit about marketing, although based on a rather unusual interaction with the Communications Minister earlier today, I don’t think he’ll be taking her marketing advice. He certainly didn’t seem to take her point.
It would appear that Julia can’t get decent broadband at Ocean Grove on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road, and so she took to Twitter to complain to Malcolm Turnbull’s Twitter account about it. Which must happen hundreds of times a day — I know he’s certainly never responded to anything I’ve sent his way — but this time he did.
Specifically, Julia wrote:
Bought a house in Ocean Grove. No NBN. No Cable. No ADSL 2 or 1. Back to the dongle. Prehistoric. @TurnbullMalcolm. Not good enough! #nbn

And normally things would end there. But instead, Malcolm wrote back with:
@SaysJuliaKeady just curious:- if connectivity was so vital to you why did you buy a house where there was no broadband available?
And she (quite reasonably, in my view), responded with
@TurnbullMalcolm You’re saying people who want their children to grow up in regional Aust don’t deserve access to modern services? @theage
@TurnbullMalcolm Not only that, I’m a small business operator–1 of millions that power this country! NBN overdue to move Aust ahead.@theage
Turnbull’s response kept to the same line, and presumably the same core bit of thinking:
@SaysJuliaKeady no I am simply asking whether given the importance of bband to you, you checked availability before buying yr new house.
@SaysJuliaKeady no – just asking you a simple question which you refuse to answer.
She hadn’t refused to answer, but did so again.
@TurnbullMalcolm Simple & already said: that’s where we want to live (refer 2nd tweet) & where we can afford to buy (3rd tweet).@SaveTheNBN
Mark Hoad ((@MHoad) jumped in with a query:
@TurnbullMalcolm @SaysJuliaKeady Mate do you even understand the bit where this is literally your job and that answer isn’t acceptable?
at which point Malcolm appears to have simply jumped back twelve months into election mode:
@mdhoad @SaysJuliaKeady of course it’s my job to complete the NBN and I will do so sooner cheaper and more affordably than Labor cd ever do
Editor’s admission: I missed the end bit when I first posted this. It’s now appended here. It doesn’t get better.

Julia’s reply indicates that they should have at least ADSL.
@TurnbullMalcolm @SaveTheNBN Broadband is available.We’re not that silly! But no ports left in exchange. No incentive for telcos!
And Malcolm’s reply was
@SaysJuliaKeady @SaveTheNBN okay how far are you from the pillar in the street?
Which more or less ignores the whole “there are no ports in the exchange issue”. And that’s where it rests (for now).
Opinion: It’s a staggering exchange. It really is. Essentially, while living in an age where broadband connectivity can have a demonstrable positive effect on both personal and business outcomes, Malcolm Turnbull’s essential view appears to be that if you happen to be somewhere where the broadband is poor, then perhaps you ought to live somewhere else.
While I don’t know where Ms Keady specifically lives beyond the town details she’s released, a quick check of Turnbull’s own MyBroadband portal suggests that ADSL availability across much of Ocean Grove is rated “A”, as in highest quality. Given the number of complaints I’ve seen regarding the MyBroadband Portal, I’m tempted to assume that this is yet another survey site done wrong.
Oh, and Malcolm, you won the election. It might be time to get off the hustings and actually do something, rather than just relying on slogans, political point scoring or have endless inquiries running into what’s been done before.
That having been said, I’m also drawn to a comment made by @Toholio, as it sums it up perfectly:
@TurnbullMalcolm @SaysJuliaKeady and holy hell, if that doesn’t just show why a ubiquitous and equal network is so valuable… *shakes head*
Source: Twitter