Prime Minister John Key says the SIS has talked would-be jihadists in New Zealand out of joining Isis after their parents approached authorities.

Author and historian Dr Monty Soutar specialises in Maori military history in both World Wars and is involved in Maori TV’s Anzac Day coverage. He talks war, racism and the East Coast.

The sons of a fallen Kiwi and Australian soldiers laid wreaths down at the new Australian Anzac memorial in Wellington.

Vandals have written "no tears for dead soldiers" on a Wollongong war memorial just a day before an annual Anzac ceremony.

The men allegedly planning to attack police and bystanders in Melbourne on Anzac Day have been linked to Isis' most senior Australian fighter.

In 1915, a New Zealand flag sat in a drawer in an Auckland home for many years until, by chance, it became well known.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott arrived in New Zealand last night for Anzac centenary events and talks on the military mission to Iraq.

He's probably the oldest RSA Poppy Day collector in the country - and also one of the best.

Des Price remembers, as clearly as if it were yesterday, his WWII experiences on one of New Zealand's most famous warships, the Leander.

Anzac Day has already been marked by National Guard reserves in Oregon, in recognition of the ties formed during World War II.

“Gallipoli: The scale of our war” depicts monuments of seven soldiers and a nurse in moments frozen in time.

Today you can download a virtual poppy to show your support for New Zealand's veterans and service people.

Kiwis young and old are helping to create the world's largest poppy in Auckland Domain to honour the Anzacs and commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli landings.

Sir Peter Jackson has re-created his most epic battle scene yet, with a giant Gallipoli diorama.

Dambuster Les Munro presents his medals and associated memorabilia to Auckland's Motat museum at a special ceremony today. The medals and memorabilia were handed over at the Bomber Command Memorial in London last month by Christopher Hill from auction house Dix Noonan Webb, and will now be donated to the Museum of Transport and Technology (Motat).

Victoria police said the medals were located yesterday by Australia Post, and it appeared they had not been stolen.

A recent online campaign led by Woolworths Australia has caused outrage among customers, who accused the supermarket giant for cashing in on Anzac Day.

A giant poppy made up of 59,000 red discs - one for each of the New Zealanders killed or wounded in World War I - will begin to take shape.

Sir Tony Robinson uncovers New Zealand ANZAC history while filming his television series retelling kiwi war stories to commemorate the 100 years since World War One.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott will make his second official visit to New Zealand next week to take part in the Anzac centenary commemorations.

A week of official events marking the centenary of the Gallipoli landings begins on Saturday with the opening of national war memorial park, the Government announced today.

Herbert A. Knight, a young man who had shown great promise in his hometown of Wanganui, was shot down on May 8, 1915. Despite having already spent that day clambering around the hills at Gallipoli carrying ammunition up to the frontlines, he had volunteered to go out and bury a mule carcass. My great-great-uncle was just 20 years old when a Turkish sniper shot him through the heart. Like so many young men killed in World War I, he was among the cream of his generation.

Commemorating the centenary of the Gallipoli landing, Neil Finn and Jim Carter have re-recorded "Blue Smoke", composed by Ruru Karaitiana in 1940. Jim Carter played steel guitar on the 1948 recording with singer Pixie Williams.

The Returned and Services Association says it cannot afford to wait until after the centenary of Anzac Day this month to take its fight against proposed changes to the country's flag.

Police on both sides of the Tasman are hunting a thief who pinched 12 medals awarded to a Kiwi Anzac who served at Gallipoli.