On 24 June 2015, the Senate referred an inquiry into matters relating to credit card interest rates to the Senate Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 24 November 2015.
On 23 November 2015, the committee was granted an extension to report by 3 December 2015.
On 30 November 2015, the committee was granted a further extensiont to report by 16 December 2015.
Submissions closed on 10 August 2015.