LIbs refuse to comment on the grounds that it may incriminate them

The South Australian Liberal Party has run to the bunker, after being caught out using forged documents to try and link Rann to Scientology. After they were exposed, Tory leader Martin Hamilton-Smith went through a series of humiliating interviews where tried to argue he didn't know where he got the documents from.

The debacle has left the Lib's speechless - by order of Hamilton-Smith's chief of staff John Lewis. Party sources have tipped the media off not to bother calling any Liberal MP's, since every Liberal MP has been told not to talk to the media about anything.

The state Tories' record of losing successive elections has meant much of their donations have dried up over the past few years, and party insiders have indicated that funding a defence to Martin Hamilton-Smith's defamation case would send them broke. Rann, against whom the most high profile defamatory remarks were made, tweeted that he was "simply asking MHS to make a proper apology and retraction".

Hamilton-Smith appears to have two options, issue a formal apology, or face a defamation suit that will send his party broke. As yet no reply has been heard from the bunker.

Read the full debacle here.