Antipodean bird soared and lifted everyone (7)
I believe the answer is:
rosella
'antipodean bird' is the definition.
'rosella' can be an answer for 'bird' (I've seen this before). I'm not sure about the 'antipodean' bit.
'soared and lifted everyone' is the wordplay.
'soared' becomes 'rose' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'lifted' says the letters should be written backwards (going up in down clue).
'everyone' becomes 'all' (I've seen this before).
'all' in reverse letter order is 'lla'.
'rose'+'lla'='ROSELLA'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for rosella that I've seen before include "Australian parakeet" , "Australian flyer" , "Aussie bird" , "Parrot" .)