Labor took a $30,000 donation for frontbencher Tony Burke's election campaign from a Beijing-linked businessman, despite two warnings from security agency ASIO that it was concerned about the man’s connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

Overall, Australian Electoral Commission disclosures published on Thursday reveal Beijing-linked donations have dropped dramatically, coinciding with a wave of public debate about the risk of politicians being compromised by foreign money.

The donation to NSW Labor was made by Hong Kong Kingson Investment Co., a company owned by Chau Chak Wing, a billionaire property developer and prolific political donor.

Mr Chau and another wealthy developer, Huang Xiangmo - whose dealings with former senator Sam Dastyari led to the Labor powerbroker's resignation - were named by ASIO as donors of concern in briefings to the major political parties in 2015. Labor leader Bill Shorten was also briefed in late 2016 about Beijing-linked donations.

A spokeswoman for Mr Burke said: "The donation is from May 2017. In June 2017 Bill Shorten announced Labor would move to stop accepting foreign donations. The Liberal Party still accepts them."