"The Gift" is the first single released from Australian rock band INXS's ninth studio album, Full Moon, Dirty Hearts (1993).

The accompanying music video was banned by MTV due to featuring controversial content.

The music video for "The Gift" dramatises issues ranging from war and terrorism to famine and pollution with the band appearing to crash through the TV screen in anger.

[2] In an interview with the director and long-term collaborator Richard Lowenstein: "The video uses harrowing visuals in order to portray man's ability to create havoc and destruction.

The message behind the video is to show how as viewers, we have become accepting of, and increasingly apathetic to images of gross human suffering and violence.