Hearing about good person from the south (7)
I believe the answer is:
austral
'the south' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'hearing about good person' is the wordplay.
'hearing' becomes 'aural' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'about' is an insertion indicator.
'good person' becomes 'st' (saint).
'aural' going around 'st' is 'AUSTRAL'.
'from' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for austral that I've seen before include "Of the southern hemisphere" , "Southern - rat Saul (anag)" , "coming from Perth?" .)