Turns up grandmother from Australia joined paramilitaries - with one of those from the city synonymous with The Rising? (8)
I believe the answer is:
arizonan
'one of those from the city synonymous with the rising?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'turns up grandmother from australia joined paramilitaries' is the wordplay.
'turns up' says the letters should be written backwards.
'grandmother' becomes 'nan' (I've seen this before).
'from' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'australia' becomes 'oz'.
'joined paramilitaries' becomes 'ira' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'nan'+'oz'+'ira'='nanozira'
'nanozira' written backwards gives 'ARIZONAN'.
'with' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for arizonan that I've seen is " Eg, native of Phoenix".)