Privilege in Perpetuity'The idea of Mori privilege continues to be deployed in order to constrain Mori aspirations and maintain the power imbalance that colonisation achieved in the nineteenth century.' The 'idea of Mori privilege', as Peter Meihana describes it, is deeply embedded in New Zealand culture. Many New Zealanders hold firm to the belief that Mori have been treated better than other indigenous peoples, and that they receive benefits that other New Zealanders do