On 12 October 2016, the following matter was referred to the Finance and Public Administration References Committee for inquiry and report by the 28 November 2016:

Commonwealth funding of Indigenous Tasmanians, with particular reference to whether hundreds of millions of dollars in Commonwealth funds over the last decade were unfairly, unjustly, or illegally allocated to, and spent on, only 6,000 Indigenous Tasmanians, rather than almost 26,000.

Submission closing date is 4 November 2016. The reporting date is 28 November 2016.