A year later, at the height of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, the Australian Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, was dismissed from his post by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, after the Opposition-controlled Senate rejected Whitlam's budget proposals. As Whitlam had a majority in the House of Representatives, Speaker Gordon Scholes appealed to the Queen to reverse Kerr's decision. She declined, stating that she would not <answer>interfere</answer> in decisions reserved by the Constitution of Australia for the governor-general. The crisis fuelled Australian republicanism.
What did Elizabeth decline to do in response to the appeal by Scholes?
interfere