At the dissolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives on 9 May 2016 for a general election on 2 July 2016, the parliamentary committees of the 44th Parliament ceased to exist. Therefore inquiries that were not completed have lapsed and submissions cannot be received.

On 11 October 2016, the Senate agreed to the committee's recommendation that this inquiry be re-adopted in the 45th Parliament. Information about the re-adopted inquiry is available here.

This is an archived webpage that is no longer updated.

On 23 June 2015, the Senate referred an inquiry into non-conforming building products to the Senate Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 12 October 2015. On 15 September 2015, the Senate granted an extension to the committee to report by 3 December 2015. On 23 November 2015, the committee was granted a further extension to report by 16 March 2016. On 15 March 2016, the Senate granted the committee an extension to report by 10 May 2016.

On 4 May 2016, the Senate granted the committee an extension to report by 30 September 2016.  

Submissions closed on 3 August 2015.

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