Meanwhile the same guy wanted Australia to become an "innovation nation" [1]. You can not innovate technology without mathematics and when you can not export due to fear of it being compromised.
During the same tenure as he and his party were promoting innovation, they were also talking down renewable and talking up the future of coal whilst also stopping the rollout of fiber infrastructure, opting to maintain the existing infrastructure which was primarily copper plus some coax.
It's worth noting that he also rode into power on the back of a reputation of being a 'progressive conservative', partly due to his business ties wherein he invested in an ISP in the 90s and early 2000s and made a large sum of money. Supporters paraded it as evidence for why he'd do the innovation and tech 'right', but any more than a cursory glance at his credentials for this revealed that it was purely a business decision not one of interest in the industry.
Turned out the progressives were very wrong and he basically sold his soul to the big coal/climate change denying/religious right faction of the Liberals to become PM. In saying that Peter Garrett in Labor was not the Midnight Oil firebrand everyone expected.
Turnbull's replacement of FTTP with FTTN in deference to Telstra was shameful and showed how much weight he gave innovation. One year on NBN and I've already had a week offline (and no landline phone) due to faulty copper.
His appearance in the Panama Papers and alleged ties to Russian oligarchs bear out the reality of his world view: Malcolm is in it for Malcolm. I'd even question his Republican stance as being nothing more than posturing.
Australians ran out of faces for the palming.