On 2 December 2015, the Senate referred the following matter to the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee for inquiry and report by 30 April 2016:
Operations of Defence Housing Australia.
Submissions to this inquiry closed on 5 February 2016.
This inquiry was not completed at the dissolution of the Senate and the House of Represenatives on 9 May 2016 for a general election and it lapsed as a result of the dissolution.