Bondi, Sydney, Australia - Kashrus Authority Taking Action Against Unreliable Kusher Butcher

Bondi, Sydney, Australia - A kosher butcher that exports meat to Sydney claims the Kashrus Authority of Western Australia (KAWA) and the Kashrus Authority (KA) are driving him out of business.
However, KAWA accuses the butcher of cutting corners by not hiring a mashgiach to oversee packaging of the meat it sends to its Sydney subsidiary, Healthy and Kosher, on Bondi Road.

KAWA and the KA have placed three advertisements in the media stating that meat purchased at Healthy and Kosher is not supervised by them.
The shop’s owner, Oren Cohen, claims it has caused a massive slump in sales and cost him tens of thousands of dollars, forcing him to take a second job. “I am disgusted and embarrassed by the way the kosher authorities have acted,” Cohen said. “I urge every rabbi and consumer to inquire for themselves about our hechsher and not be misled by these accusations.”

Until July, the meat being sold in Healthy and Kosher was produced in WA Kosher Butcher under KAWA’s supervision. It was considered kosher for consumers, however KAWA said that if WA Kosher Butcher wanted to send meat to Sydney, it needed to hire a mashgiach to oversee the packaging process and pay KAWA 40 cents per item.
The owner of WA Kosher Butcher, Mordechai Cohen – Oren’s father – refused to pay a mashgiach to oversee packaging because the cost was prohibitively expensive, he said, as KAWA was demanding “full-time” supervision. He continued sending meat to his son’s shop in Sydney.
In response, KAWA placed a second advertisement in the AJN telling consumers that Healthy and Kosher’s meat was not fully supervised, causing a further slump in business.

Since then, WA Kosher Butcher has taken the unprecedented step of obtaining a new hechsher from an Israeli kashrus authority. The cheaper rates have enabled Cohen to pay for a mashgiach to supervise the packaging process as well as the meat’s preparation. 
But the KA argues that an Australian butcher cannot be given a hechsher from an Israeli kashrut authority, and it still maintains that the meat being sold in Healthy and Kosher is not properly supervised.