They report on social agendas, like BLM and #meToo, like the whole of America is united and throwing a huge celebration but southern states have fallen behind and need help to catch up. For day to day politics they tend to quote the appropriate state governor* though.

*Side note: our 'premiers' are equivalent to your 'governors'. We do additionally have state governors with viceregal duties as a safeguard, but their main job is to fire the premier and dissolve the parliament if the state government goes insane. Unfortunately it's usually the premier who appoints the governor who serves their interests, so this never happens.

OK, just thought of a good example: when you guys have wildfires, we know that the wildfires are in California. When we have our bushfires, they are likewise usually limited to eastern Victoria and parts of New South Wales, but Americans burst into tears (bless your hearts) thinking that the entire continent is suddenly a big ball of fire, there are social media comments from American ex-marines giving advice about how we should organise the evacuation of an entire continent, and then the our MSM cringe-overloards start making fun of the way your MSM is beating up the stories too much.