The business of the Australian Parliament is going on this Wednesday and with just a few sitting weeks left of the year there's plenty to do, but one Senator summed up the mood around here best when he was approached by reporters in Canberra.
"Is anyone actually listening out there?" Senator McGrath asked himself.
"Because I think everybody in this building is totally focused on the US election."
And along with the issues of the day - new counter-terrorism legislation, the backpacker tax, superannuation, asylum seeker bans, Section 18c - every MP and Senator has been asked to give their two cents on the most extraordinary US presidential election in decades.
Here's a sense of who's said what in Canberra today.
Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce:
"America is vitally important for our strategic interests and our economic interests. They're a major player, we need them to be a major player in the pacific as we get the expansion of the power of China we want to have a US that is a counter balance.
"So I'm not going to pick a winner because who ever wins we need to work with them. We need to wish them all the very, very best."
Foreign Minister, Julie Bishop:
"Apart from our own national general election I can think of few elections that are likely to have more impact on Australia's economic and strategic interests than this race to the 45th Presidency of the United States.
"The United States is our largest foreign direct investor, our second largest trading partner, our security alliance partner and is the guarantor and defender of the international rules based order that underpins our economic and security interests. So I'm following this election very closely.
"Of course if Hillary Clinton is elected President she will be the first woman to hold this significant global position and that would be a cause for celebration for women around the world."
"Should Donald Trump win the Presidency Australia will work very productively with a Trump Administration as we would with a Clinton Administration."
Treasurer, Scott Morrison:
"I think the issues of deep engagement in our issue and free trade are very important for Australia, particularly on the issue of free trade and the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] both of the candidates have said a lot of things which aren’t terribly encouraging, but I think, as always, we will wait for the American people to make their decision.
"I think it’s up to the American people and we would work with whoever is elected on this great day of democracy, and we’ve got a wonderful relationship with the Unites States and that has always endured, regardless of who sits in The Lodge and who sits in the White House."
Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten:
"Well I have made my views clear. I think it is probably in Australia's foreign policy interest to see a President Hillary Clinton elected. We will work with whoever the American people elect. But I have also made my views clear about the other fellow, Donald Trump. Someone who can't respect women, I can't respect them.
"The Australian-American alliance is one of our bedrocks of foreign policy. Both Labor and Liberal believe this fundamentally. Australia will work with whoever the American democratic process turns out in the next 24 hours.
"I think it is important that we have America engaged in the Asia-Pacific region. I think it is important that America keeps it pivot or re-balance towards Asia as one of its priorities. That for me is of great interest. How American foreign policy helps with Australian security and helps with Australia's engagement in Asia."
Deputy Opposition Leader, Tanya Plibersek:
"The result matters very much for Australia, of course. You've got two candidates who have expressed quite different foreign policy, particularly as they relate to our region.
"Certainly a Clinton presidency would see, I think, a US that continues to be much more engaged and focused on our region. But of course, the relationship between the United States and Australia is bigger than any one person, and Australia would deal with any result in this election, no doubt.
"Yes, if I had a vote I'd be voting Hillary."
Greens Leader Richard Di Natale:
"Donald Trump's a lunatic, he's a certifiable lunatic."
"He's potentially going to be in the most powerful position in the world, a position that requires someone who is able to show a modicum of decency and respect towards people of different races, different ethnicities [and] he's shown none of that."
South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon:
"I'm about to give my mate Bruno a call who's a Bob Cat operator in Adelaide, he's a good mate of mine, I want to give a shoutout to Bruno I hope he can give me mates rates when he digs a bunker for me in my back yard if Donald Trump becomes President. But hopefully that won't have to happen."
