Penny Bright (8 September 1954 – 4 October 2018) was a New Zealand activist who protested for increased government transparency, against the 1981 Springbok tour, and for other left-wing issues.
[1] Bright studied at Kuranui College, and organised Halt All Racist Tours while she was a high school student.
[3] In 2000, Bright and the Water Pressure Group attempted to hose the Bolivian embassy in Remuera using a vintage firetruck in protest against locked-out workers in Bolivia.
[4] Two notable arrests were when she was forcibly removed from two different Auckland City Council meeting by then mayors John Banks and Dick Hubbard.
In 2018, the Auckland High Court ordered the sale of Bright's house to recoup the missing rates and legal fees of $90,000.