Windellama (/wɪndəlɑːmə/) is a rural locality in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia in the Goulburn Mulwaree Council.
This has created a change in property sizes in the area, previously mostly large agricultural enterprises, now on a multitude of 50-100 acre (20-40 ha)hobby farms.
[10] In May 2022, nineteen Windellama brigade members who had contributed to the unprecedented 2019–2020 bushfire crisis were presented with the National Emergency Medal by NSW RFS Superintendent Peter Alley and RFS Group Captain Des Kingston on behalf of His Excellency, the Governor General of the Commonwealth of Australia David Hurley.
The following Windellama brigade members, contributing a combined total of more than 550 days service during the 2019/2020 fires, were awarded National Emergency Medals: Paul Alessi, Sharon Alessi, Wayne Back, Murray Browne, Michael Gazzard, Doug Gurney, Daniel Hansen, Tracey Keenan, Michael Lees, Bev McGaw, Danny McGaw, Scott Molloy, Peter Pokorny Doug Rollinson, Brett Roberts, Brendan Shannon, Thomas Shannon, Mick Still and Kym Wake.
[12] The 2021 NSW Volunteer of the Year Award recipient for the Southern Inland region was Senior Deputy Captain Brendan Shannon.
Twenty-one-year-old Thomas Shannon was selected as the 2019 NSW Young Volunteer of the Year for the South Coast and Southern Tablelands for his outstanding volunteer rescue work assisting in lifesaving roadside rescues with his local fire brigade as well as joining a number of teams to fight fires throughout the region.
Hayman was also a specialist in the cobbled classics, and was the winner of what is widely agreed as the toughest professional one day race in the world - the Paris–Roubaix in 2016.
[22] Geoff Meredith, a sheep grazier from Windellama won Australia's first Motor Racing Grand Prix in 1927 held in Goulburn driving a Type 30 straight eight Bugatti.
[25] Owned/Managed by the NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service and funded by Holcim Australia, this is the first New South Wales microbat aviary rehabilitation centre.
On 19 June 2017, the four members; Kevin Muffett, Noel Sylvester, Margaret Burgoine and Graham Kinder, were awarded a NSW SES Commissioner's Unit Citation for responding.