Women followed by all the children — not bad start for these Australian residents (9)
I believe the answer is:
wallabies
'children not bad start for these australian residents' is the definition.
The definition suggests an adverb but the answer is not.
'women followed by all' is the wordplay.
'women' becomes 'w'.
'followed' becomes 'abies' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'by' says to put letters next to each other.
'abies' put after 'all' is 'allabies'.
'w'+'allabies'='WALLABIES'
'the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for wallabies that I've seen before include "Marsupials" , "Pouched jumpers" , "bounders" .)