Amalgamation is on the agenda for a new South Australian coalition, led by the state's Property Council of Australia.

The coalition has been put together in recent weeks to look at council reform, and features 11 groups including the Australian Hotels Association, Master Builders Association and the shop workers union.

The leaders of the coalition say it was formed to find economic benefits for the state’s economy, and denies there would be any specific gain for the industries represented.

Property Council executive director Daniel Gannon told the ABC that the coalition would look at a range of fixes and reforms.

Compulsory voting and online voting in local government elections or on the ticket, but Mr Gannon said council amalgamations would be a “top priority”.

“If we have a look interstate at the moment whether its WA, NSW or even Tasmania, people are putting council reform firmly on the agenda and we need to do the same thing,” Mr Gannon said.

“We need to start opening our doors to investment, not closing them.”

South Australia really does have a lot of councils – even after losing 50 in amalgamations back in 1997, it still has 69 local governments across metro and regional areas.

This number appears is put in context by their Victorian neighbours, which govern five times the amount of people within just 34 councils.

“Sydney right now is mooting a reduction of 40 metropolitan councils down to 10,” Mr Gannon said.

“Now their population across the state is seven times higher than us.

“If we look at Perth they're mooting, well in fact, they're implementing a reduction from 31 down to 16 and they have got more people living there than South Australia.”

He said the coalition would look at fixes for poor voter turn-out on the local level as well.

“It's time to look at compulsory voting in local government election campaigns,” he said.

“It's time to look at online voting. We're all using iPads and iPhones these days, but we're still using pencils when it comes to voting.”