Islander madly against woke extremes (9)

I believe the answer is:

taswegian

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'islander' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether this works.

'madly against woke extremes' is the wordplay.
'madly' indicates an anagram.
'extremes' suggests removing the centre.
'woke' with its middle removed is 'we'.
'against'+'we'='againstwe'
'againstwe' anagrammed gives 'TASWEGIAN'.

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(Another definition for taswegian that I've seen is " Antipodean".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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