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Analysis: As the Iwi Chairs Forum fought fruitlessly to keep Te Pāti Māori together last week, spokesperson Bayden Barber offered a warning: a split tōtara is only good for the fire.
Now Te Pāti Māori finds itself in an inferno.
The slow-burn conflagration has been smouldering for so long, it's easy to miss the magnitude. But this is no small matter.
This is a party ousting a third of its caucus, citing "irreconcilable differences" and "serious breaches" of its constitution.
Fronting reporters on Monday morning, co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi wished their former colleagues "all the best of luck" and
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