Australia's most expensive property, the 7000sqm beach front Point Piper Mansion named "Elaine" at 550 New South Head Road, owned by the powerful Fairfax media family has famously gone up for sale. It is expected the reach the $100 million dollar mark.
The property contains a seven-bedroom mansion with ballroom, stables, tennis court and rolling lawns to the beach.

It is 2013, and Australia's technological future looks bleak. The luddite science-minister-free Abbott government is now in power and has put us back to 1930.
Slashed NICTA funding is just the beginning, but we can do something about it!
How about the hacker/maker community get together and pitch in to secure Australia's most expensive property, and turn it into the world's leading edge Hackerspace and technology development centre!
It would be a shame if this property gets snapped up by another rich corporate fat cat or developer, most likely some anonymous overseas investor.

Imagine what a statement securing this property would send to the world - that Hackerspaces are a serious breading ground for technology innovation, education, and future development.
Imagine what we could do with 7000sqm of beach front land close to the Sydney CBD:
We could turn the tennis court into a quadcopter research and proving ground.
The 5 bedrooms could sleep over 100 nerds in full comfort.
The stables can be converted into a Tony Stark style research and development lab.
And everyone knows nerds are entirely deficient in vitamin D due to the lack of sunlight. Imagine what the local beach can do for that alone, it's a priceless investment in Australia's technology future. Naturally, full 5G wifi access will be available along the entire beach front.

The property will be renamed of course (TBD), with LED signage visible from the International Space Station.

With this sort of money it should be possible to make this a free and open start-of-the-art space for hackers, makers, artists, inventors, entrepreneurs and engineers everywhere to come together and make a dent in the universe. Come and stay as long as you like and contribute to the innovation or just hack on stuff. Permanent space will be allocated to the highest campaign bidders.

So pitch in and help make this a reality and attract the best and brightest minds into this outstanding space, and make Australia a technology world leader!

If we don't reach our goal, no one gets charged, but then Australia's technological future could be best described as rooted.

It is quite possible that some corporate fat cat bids more than we raise in this campaign, or the property gets sold before the end of the campaign. In which case the backup plan is to secure our own island which we'll rename Hacker Island.
This one near the Great Barrier reef should do nicely for $4.5M:
http://www.privateislandsonline.com/islands/hinchinbrook-island
The main issue with that is the access, but with $95M spare we should be able to regularly fly everyone to and from the space in our own private sea plane or solar powered yacht.
I'm not sure about land tax and all that other crap, we'll sort that out later. We can always hoist a pirate flag and declare ourselves an independent nation if it comes to that.
Being a full time Youtube content creator hampered by the lack of an NBN connection, I'm obviously sitting on a throne of cash, so should be able to cover any unforeseen million dollar expenses out of my own pocket.
Ongoing operating funding can be provided by selling the rights to a hacker space reality TV show, ironically to Fairfax Media perhaps.