The Queensland LNP Government plans to fast-track a $600 million residential and marina development linked to an LNP donor and a key government appointee.

The principal company involved in the North Harbour residential development at Caboolture north of Brisbane is Port Binnli, whose director and significant shareholder Malcolm Hall-Brown was appointed by the Newman Government in 2012 as chairman of the state-owned Ergon Energy.

Port Binnli is listed in Liberal National Party donations returns as contributing $16,500 to the Queensland LNP in July 2013.

The company is also listed in the Ministerial Diary of the Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie as having attended one of the LNP's Q Forum fundraising events in May the same year.

Only companies that pay thousands of dollars in subscriptions are allowed to attend Q Forum events, where they can mingle with ministers and senior figures in the government.

The fundraising body is believed to have raised millions for the LNP.

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The ABC asked the office of the Deputy Premier and Planning Minister Jeff Seeney about Port Binnli's contribution to the LNP.

Mr Seeney replied in a statement that he had "no knowledge of donations made to the LNP by anybody".

The developer of North Harbour wants to build 1,200 home sites near the Caboolture River, along with schools, shops, restaurants and a 300-berth marina.

Mr Seeney's office confirmed that the Government "would progress a PDA (Priority Development Area) declaration if the LNP is re-elected".

This is despite the concerns of the Moreton Bay Regional Council about the site being vulnerable to river flooding and predicted sea level rises.

"Council is not against this development. We just want to make sure it's done right," said Moreton Bay Regional Councillor Mick Gillam, who is also the council's planning spokesman.

"A lot of the site is in the river flood zone. Projected sea levels will affect the project to some extent. There's a 0.8 metre projected sea rise in the next 80 years."

Councillor Gillam said making the site a PDA meant council no longer had any power to approve or reject the project.

"When you fast-track things it usually results in disaster in the long run," he said.

"This sounds like an election stunt to me."

But Mr Seeney rejected this.

"This development has had strong support from both sides of politics for a long period of time," he said in a statement.

"It was declared a 'significant project' by former Labor infrastructure and planning minister (and current Labor candidate for Sandgate) Stirling Hinchliffe and approved by the Coordinator General in October 2009.

"The Moreton Bay Regional Council has written to me to express its support for the declaration of this Priority Development Area.

"All Priority Development Areas declared by our government have been declared with the full support of the local councils, and planning assessments within PDAs are usually delegated to local councils.

"Our proposed declaration aims to build on this long-running support for a development that could create thousands of jobs and business opportunities for locals."

Seeney ordered removal of climate references from council plan

The ABC revealed in December that Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney had intervened to have all references to sea level rise removed from the Moreton Bay regional plan.

This was despite identical provisions for sea level rise in many of Queensland's coastal council areas including Brisbane, Townsville and the Whitsundays.

At the time Mr Seeney told the ABC he had intervened "to ensure residents' rights to build and develop their properties were maintained and not restricted by their local council".

Wyatt Roy, who represents the federal seat of Longman for the LNP, welcomed the State Government's plan.

"North Harbour is expected to boost our local economy by more than $2.6 billion," Mr Roy wrote on his website.

"The PDA means a strong, working relationship between government authorities will fast-track this world-class, master-planned community through more efficient planning and approval decisions and quicker construction starts."

Political donations and particularly those raised at so-called "cash-for-access" networking events like Q Forum have become a hot campaign topic.

One of the nation's most respected corruption fighters, the former head of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, David Ipp, this week told the ABC he has serious concerns about this style of "pay-for-access" to ministers.

"No-one wants to live in a state where secret access is obtained to ministers and decisions are made that affect all the people, sometimes for the benefit of a few individuals. No-one would regard that as fair," said Mr Ipp, who led inquiries that led to corruption findings against two senior NSW Labor ministers.

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