<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopetoun_Blunder" id="mwdw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hopetoun Blunder">Hopetoun Blunder</a>: The first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_Australia" id="mweA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Governor-General of Australia">Governor-General of Australia</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hope,_7th_Earl_of_Hopetoun" id="mweQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun">John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun</a>, appoints Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyne" id="mweg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="William Lyne">William Lyne</a> premier of the new state of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales" id="mwew" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.<sup about="#mwt76" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"}}' id="cite_ref-13" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_19#cite_note-13" id="mwfA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 13;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwfQ">[13]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-13"><cite about="#mwt73" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBrian_Carroll2004">Brian Carroll (2004). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=W8PUBuw4idYC&amp;pg=PA23" id="mwBvA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBvE">Australia's Prime Ministers: From Barton to Howard</i></a>. Rosenberg Publishing Pty, Limited. p.<span id="mwBvI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>23. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBvM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBvQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-1-877058-22-6" id="mwBvU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-877058-22-6"><bdi id="mwBvY">978-1-877058-22-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt73" class="Z3988" id="mwBvc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Australia%27s+Prime+Ministers%3A+From+Barton+to+Howard&amp;rft.pages=23&amp;rft.pub=Rosenberg+Publishing+Pty%2C+Limited&amp;rft.date=2004&amp;rft.isbn=978-1-877058-22-6&amp;rft.au=Brian+Carroll&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DW8PUBuw4idYC%26pg%3DPA23&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+19"></span></span>