A Tasmanian political expert has expressed belief before a parliamentary committee there would be little public objection to a decision to grow the state's lower house by 10 members.
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The committee, which is looking at the operation of the House of Assembly, heard from Professor Peter Boyce on Friday who had written a paper almost 10 years ago on restoration of numbers in the chamber.
He said he was disappointed an agreement in 2009 between political leaders to genuinely look at expanding the house had been abandoned after the 2010 state election.
Professor Boyce said workloads were not just a problem for ministers and those with portfolio responsibilities but for backbenchers.
He said Tasmanian Parliament had to serve the same number of portfolios as larger parliaments but often with half the number of ministers.
Professor Boyce said he believed there was a general understanding that parliamentarians had to take on more work than they had in the past.
He said while there would be debate over the costs associated with more politicians in the House of Assembly, those costs would be "minuscule" in proportion to the work that could be achieved within electorates.
"How do you put a price tag on the quality of governance?" Professor Boyce said.
"It's the most critical element of the political system."
Aboriginal advocate Rodney Dillon continued the argument that there should be two dedicated statewide seats for Tasmanian Aboriginal representatives above any additional seats in Parliament.
He said those two representatives should be selected from the two distinct groups of Aboriginal groups within the community.
Mr Dillon said poor representation of the Aboriginal community in Parliament was evidenced by lack of improvement across a number of social indicators.
"We've come from being proud owners of our land to being meaningless," he said.
Tasmanian Electoral Commissioner Andrew Hawkey said it could be a complicated and uncomfortable process for a person to prove their Aboriginality in order to be eligible for one of the statewide seats.
He said the commission could respond well to an expanded House of Assembly if a decision was made to do grow numbers before the 2022 state election.
