Complex sentence: Faced with other problems, Lang's plans for abolition utlimately failed and Premier Betram Stevens later passed reforms to make the Legislative Council elected and remove the threat of swamping the council and the constituional issues associated with the Governor assenting to those appointments.
Split into simpler sentences: Faced with other problems, Lang's plans for abolition utlimately failed. His successor as Premier, Bertram Stevens, later passed reforms to make the Legislative Council elected and remove the threat of a swamping of the council and the constitutional issues associated with the Governor assenting to those appointments.