prior to the conference , robert mcintyre and douglas young , the leaders of the scottish national party Social_event , lobbied king , fraser , smuts , huggins , and curtin , asking Request them to raise Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the issue of scottish independence at the conference and to invite Request scotland to take part in it and all future commonwealth conferences .

it culminated Filling on 11 november 1975 with the dismissal Change_of_leadership from office of the prime minister , gough whitlam of the australian labor party ( alp ) , by governor-general sir john kerr , who then commissioned the leader of the opposition , malcolm fraser of the liberal party , as caretaker prime minister .