Qld to tighten political donation laws

The new Queensland government's first laws will be to reinstate stringent reporting rules for political donations.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the legislation will lower the threshold so all donations of more than $1000 will need to be reported.

Only donations above $12,800 had to be reported under the previous Liberal National Party (LNP) government's watered-down laws.

The change is a Labor election commitment and the premier says it demonstrates her government's commitment to political transparency and accountability.

"No more will there be secrecy in political donations," Ms Palaszczuk said on Monday.

The premier said political parties must report four figure donations every six months and the laws would be retroactive from November last year.

Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath said any political party who failed to disclose donations of more than $1000 during that period would be breaching reporting requirements.

Ms D'Ath said there were some exceptions, but they didn't extend to this year's election campaign.

"The legislation already provides, and will continue to provide, where a party can not produce certain receipts," she said.

"But that is not an out for the LNP."

Ms D'Ath said Labor had made it clear the laws would change if it won the January 31 election, so the LNP should have been keeping records of donations under the previous threshold of $12,800.

The government will also begin advertising for a new head of the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC), the state's corruption watchdog.

Labor said they would break from tradition and appoint a non-government MP as head of the parliamentary committee overseeing CCC.

The government plans to change electoral laws as well so voters would no longer have to show identification at polling booths.

The former LNP government said it brought in those laws, unique in Australia, to help reduce electoral fraud.

But critics said the laws discriminated against indigenous and poor people.