Delegate is a small town in far southern New South Wales, Australia in Snowy Monaro Regional Council, 523 kilometres (325 mi) south-southwest of the state capital, Sydney.

The township is situated on the Delegate River, just a few kilometres north of the state border between New South Wales and Victoria.

[3] Following Robert Campbell's death, the property at Delegate passed to his unmarried daughter, Sophia[4] and from her to her nephews, John and Fredrick Jeffreys.

Today the school serves a community of children whose parents are farmers, professional people, those employed by the timber industry, and others who work locally.

The geographical location of Delegate Public School enables it to draw students from both New South Wales and Victoria.

With the low numbers of Sisters to teach and an enrolment of only 33 pupils, St Joseph's Convent School closed in 1981.

Families prominent in the church's history are the Campbells, Rankins, Olivers, Sivewrights, Martins and others of Scotch ancestry.

In the early 1920s, artist Hilda Rix Nicholas stayed in the Delegate area, where she painted several major works, including In Australia and His Land.

[8] Being on the southern face of the dividing range, the region is shielded from the westerly storm track (in which case it would experience foehn winds), however its position well-south of the Monaro Rainshadow exposes it to southerly and south-southwesterly systems.

The latter is apparent in its high winter–spring precipitation and low maximum temperatures compared to Cooma or Bombala farther north in the rainshadow proper.

This is almost equal to that of Thredbo Village nearly 600 metres (2,000 ft) higher, showing the steep latitudinal gradient between the 36th and 37th parallels south.

The Delegate Progress Association (DPA) is a vital part of the community and was twice featured on the Channel 9 program "A Current Affair".

The DPA and the Bundian Way, a project of Eden Local Aboriginal Land Council, have now established a gallery in the old banking chambers.