IT MIGHT be seven years since the Queensland Government forced amalgamation on councils state-wide, but the anger of some locals has not abated.

Southern Downs Regional Council will seek support from its fellow councils in a push for the Local Government Association of Queensland to fund an independent study of the effects of forced amalgamations.

The LGAQ has indicated it could cost up to $500,000 and would need to be funded by all 73 Queensland councils, even the 35 that were not amalgamated with neighbours.

The council wants case studies to determine the impacts on staff, ratepayers and small communities that were formerly the centres of rural shires.

The motion council will put forward at the LGAQ conference from October 19-21 also calls for recommendations on local consultation, internal divisions, workforce structures and branch offices to address these issues.

Mayor Peter Blundell said locals still had strong feelings about amalgamation, including a minority who remained strongly opposed to it.

"I think that it is something people will take to the grave with them... In fact, I think there will be a number of generations before that changes," he said.

Cr Blundell said many people associated amalgamation with loss of community identity, control and financial management.

But he said council's current view was that they needed to get on with the job.

Cr Blundell was sceptical the push for a study would garner support from the Labor government because forced amalgamations were implemented under a Labor government in 2008.