On 23 July 2019, the Senate agreed to the committee's recommendation that this inquiry be re-adopted in the 46th Parliament for inquiry and report by 5 December 2019.

All correspondence and evidence previously received for this inquiry has been made available to the new committee. This means that submissions already provided to the committee about this issue do not need to be re-submitted. The committee intends to refer to the evidence received during the 45th Parliament.

On 15 October 2019, the Senate granted an extension of time to report until the Wednesday of the first sitting week in June 2020.

On 9 June 2020, the Senate granted a further extention of time to report until Wednesday 9 December 2020.