Ahh - now I see what you mean. It isn’t showing up in local communities because it isn’t a local community. That interpretation of “local” means “local to aussie.zone”, not local to Australia. As the community lives on Quokk.au, it isn’t local as far as Lemmy is concerned.

!melbourne@lemmy.world exists, for example - but it won’t show up on local communities, because it lives on lemmy.world.