The Sydney Morning Herald does right with its letters policy in the lead-up to the 14 September 2013 Federal Election

And with politics becoming so intense, we ask anyone who is a member of a political party to declare their affiliations in their letters. It is only fair to readers. Any offenders will be sin binned until after the election, and be warned: we are tougher than those State of Origin refs.

Julie Lewis Letters co-editor [22 June 2013]

Hopefully NSW North Coast newspapers will decide to implement that same policy for the duration.

At the moment voters in at least one Northern Rivers electorate are in the ridiculous position of reading a politically motivated letter by a very active member of a political party (and former local government election candidate) being published under this legend: