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Anti-wind farm group angers vets
A SECRETIVE anti-wind farm group has sparked outrage by dubbing itself the RATS of Tooborac.
Diggers and the State Government are fuming over the moniker, accusing the group of "trivialising" the achievements and sacrifices of Australian war heroes.
August 27, 2006
in The Australian
The Rats of Tobruk achieved fame in World War II, holding a besieged port against a previously unstoppable advance of Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps.
Now residents fighting a wind farm plan in central Victoria has adopted their own version of the name.
The secretive style group has called itself the RATS (Residents Against Turbines) of Tooborac, even using the slogan "Fighting For Our Country".
"Our name was chosen at the first meeting of a small group of neighbours concerned about the invasion of the McHarg Ranges by wind turbines," he said.
"The acronym RATS was an obvious choice. "We did not engineer the name -- it sort of fell perfectly into place."
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