The Turnbull government will ban foreign donations to Australian political parties, introduce new laws targeting spies and foreign interference, toughen laws that ban disclosure of classified information and make it a crime to support foreign intelligence agencies.

The sweeping package of counter-intelligence law changes, which follows a lengthy review led by Attorney-General George Brandis and which is designed to stop interference in Australia's democratic institutions, will be released in the final week of Parliament for 2017.

The crackdown on foreign spies, lobbyists and donations, details of which were foreshadowed in September, will be introduced just days after Fairfax Media revealed that Labor senator Sam Dastyari warned the Chinese Communist Party-linked Huang Xiangmo his phone was likely tapped by intelligence agencies.

The new foreign interference laws will include a ban on foreign political donations and will enhance and reform the espionage and foreign interference related offences in the criminal code, and introduce a foreign influence transparency scheme, modelled in part on the United States's foreign agents registration act.