Introduction
Penny Bright (1954 – 4 October 2018) was a New Zealand government transparency activist.
Biography
Bright worked as a sheet-metal welder. She studied at Kuranui College.She oranized for Halt All Racist Tours. She was a member of Water Pressure Group. She was arrested at an Auckland City Council meeting. She filed many Privacy Act requests about Auckland government spending.
In 2010, 2013 and 2016, she was a candidate for Auckland mayor. She was a candidate for the 2017 Mount Albert by-election. Her best electoral showing was in a 2000 by-election for the Avondale/Roskill Ward of the Auckland City Council where she finished a close second with 31.61% of the vote, beating the City Vision candidate into third place.
She died of ovarian cancer in 2018.