"Read About It" is a song by Australian rock band Midnight Oil, released as the third and final single from their 1982 studio album, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
It was a favourite with the band and with fans, appearing at least once on every tour since its release, as well as being played at the WaveAid concert in 2005.
Only a handful of songs ("Power and the Passion", "Beds Are Burning", "The Dead Heart", and "Say Your Prayers") are known to have been performed so often by the band.
On the Blackfella/Whitefella Tour, Peter Garrett referred to the song as the 'Rupert Murdoch Alligator Express'.
The song was used by Scott Hicks in an early scene in his 1988 film Sebastian and the Sparrow, when "Sparrow", the Vietnamese street kid, breaks into Sebastian Thornbury's up-market West Lakes home.