Speleothems from Golgotha Cave in SW Western Australia have been investigated to extend our knowledge of past climate variability for this region during the last millennium. O isotopic datasets, the primary paleoclimate proxy used for speleothems, were constructed for four stalagmites. A challenge in their interpretation has been the disagreement between these records, despite representing coeval growth from within the same cave. Resolving this conundrum has necessitated the characterisation of the hydrology, hydrochemistry, rainfall isotopes and development of proxy system forward models for Golgotha Cave. The findings of these studies will be summarised as a conceptual model in order to present the main karst hydrological features that give rise to each stalagmite’s isotopic response to hydroclimatic forcing. The paleoclimate interpretation will focus on the two continuous stalagmite records that were fed predominately by diffuse flow. This will be supported by evidence from the two stalagmites predominantly fed by fracture flow, which has resulted in a non-linear response to hydroclimatic forcing.