WI: Sir Phillip Game did not sack Jack Lang

A bit of an Australia-centric timeline here, but nonetheless:

J.T. "Jack" Lang was Premier of New South Wales from 1930-32, during the height of the Depression. His radical left-wing policies drew the ire of the New Guard, an ultra-conservative paramilitary organisation operating semi-clandestinely across New South Wales, who believes Lang should be removed, by force if necessary.

OTL, Lang was dismissed by the Governor of NSW, Sir Phillip Game, on 13 May 1932 in response to actions undertaken by the Lang government. It later transpired that the New Guard had been plotting a coup attempt during this crisis.

So, WHAT IF Game did not sack Lang, and the coup attempt had gone ahead?
 
From Wikipedia (though I couldn't find any other sources):

On the evening of the dismissal of Jack Lang by Governor Sir Philip Game on 13 May 1932, a brigade of several hundred men of the New Guard were stationed in the basement of a department store building several hundred metres from Parliament House. They had threatened to march upon Parliament House and stage another coup attempt if he did not resign before seven o'clock. Lang was sacked at six o'clock. A civil war might well have ensued had they attempted the coup, as important government buildings throughout the city of Sydney were being guarded by members of the Australian Labor Army and the New South Wales Police (legally responsible to the Crown through Governor Game but allegedly loyal to Lang's ministers). Certain Army officers, loyal to the Federal Government, were also members of the New Guard and might have been expected to bring out their troops in support of a coup.

I'm not assuming a successful coup just yet, I'm assuming an attempt which may well be quashed.
 

Sebbywafers

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How long could Lang have lasted as Premier without dismissal, anyway? What's the maximum time he could have held the position?
 
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