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Basically it's to do with ownership, Rupert Murdoch/News Corp actually has nothing much to do with Sky News UK (anymore) but completely owns Sky News Australia.

Sky News UK is owned by Sky Group, which also used to own Sky News Australia until a few years ago when it was acquired by News corp. News Corp of course used to own a controlling stake in Sky group and even tried to buy the whole lot at one point but failed and now it's mostly owned by Comcast I think.

It's also worth nothing that Sky News Australia also runs a relatively 'normal', fairly respectable news network during the day but then in the evening they switch over to start broadcasting much more right wing conspiracy laden content and pushing this onto digital channels such as Youtube where it then gets picked up and used by more fringe right wingers in the US to legitimise their views (kind of look this 'mainstream' australian news channel is broadcasting this clip, it must be true and the US mainstream media just is covering it up). This is commonly known as 'Sky after dark'.

This article from the guardian probably gives a better overview of what they are doing these days and why it is so insidious. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/24/sky-n...