Federal ministers have declined to say whether Mr Liqiang should be granted asylum.
Wang Liqiang is the first Chinese operative to ever blow his cover and has revealed details of how they fund and conduct political interference operations.
The powerful parliamentary committee examining press freedom will now report in the week starting December 16 after being swamped with suggestions for change.
The Chinese Communist Party would like critics to sign up to a series of lies about the present and past.
The Prime Minister says it is up to Chinese authorities to explain the move and has defended the right of his MPs to speak out on human rights issues.
China's punitive actions against its trading partners may shock some,but it is becoming the new normal under hardline leader Xi Jinping.
A trove of documents leaked to The New York Times has exposed unprecedented details about Beijing's crackdown against Muslim minorities.
Greens leader Richard Di Natale has criticised Beijing's decision to bar the Liberal MPs from visiting on a study tour.
Beijing says Liberal MPs must apologise if they are to get visas to travel to China.
Prominent WA Liberal MP Andrew Hastie and Victorian Senator James Paterson have been barred from entering China on a study tour planned for December.
The WA Premier's strategic adviser was forced to delete a tweet referring to Liberal MP Andrew Hastie as an"absolute deads--t"as a war of words in the west showed no sign of abating.