'Ridiculous': Halls Creek Shire botches insurance claim after work vehicle rollover at swimming hole

In short: Halls Creek Shire has apologised for botching an insurance claim on a wrecked $100,000 work vehicle. Halls Creek Shire has apologised for botching an insurance claim on a wrecked $100,000 work vehicle. Residents in an outback West Australian town are fuming after the local shire admitted it botched an insurance claim on a work vehicle worth about $100,000, which was in a rollover crash on Australia Day, 2022, near a well-known recreation spot. Shire acting chief executive Musa Mono said the car was sold at a Darwin auction house in July 2023 and an insurance claim was finally submitted this year.