The Liberal Party homepage will now be hosted by Netspeed. The previous host could not be named.

The defacement took place on January 17, 2005, when an image of a Turkish warrior, complete with bow replaced the normally gleaming banner of Prime Minister John Howard with South Australian Liberal honcho Rob Kerin. The warrior stood atop the words "We Are Your Nightmare".

The Web site previously used the URL www.sa.liberals.org.au. As a result of the defacement, and the new hosting contract, the URL now is www.saliberals.org.au.

Ryan Story, IT manager for the South Australian Liberal Party, confirmed the defacement was the motivator to switch hosting companies and said the breach was utterly disappointing.

"In recent times we have had some problem with hosting and we moved as a result of the defacement as we were utterly disappointed with the services we had received from our previous host as it was previously considered to be a good company," Story said.