[1] In 1988, the Independent MP for the state seat of North Shore, Ted Mack, resigned from Parliament to avoid qualifying for a parliamentary pension.
Read contested the resulting by-election as an independent with Mack's endorsement, and easily defeated her nearest rival, Liberal candidate Jillian Skinner.
[3] Read contested North Shore one more time unsuccessfully in the by-election held in 1994 in which she was defeated in a rematch by her old Liberal rival Jillian Skinner.
[4] A crime novel written by Read, The More Things Change, was published in 1996 by Random House.
Set in Sydney, the journalist Kate Corbett investigates the murder, uncovering endemic corruption and vice along the way.