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The Prime Minister will mark Waitangi Day by attending the NRL Auckland Nines tournament at Eden Park and other events in Auckland.

New Zealand will welcome 24 new citizens at Government House tomorrow.

COMMENT: The Prime Minister promised he would not quit Waitangi - and he has broken that promise. But here's the thing - nobody cares, writes Larry Williams.

A group of around 50 protesters were welcomed onto Te Tii Marae.

TOBY MANHIRE: John Key's Waitangi decision is a victory for those who long for a national day more like Australia's twisted celebration.

Labour leader Andrew Little has accused Prime Minister John Key of a lack of leadership and says he will still visit Te Tii Marae today.

John Key has pulled out of attending Waitangi, saying "we are simply at a point though where I can't go, as the Prime Minister, onto a marae with a gagging order".

Five walks that highlight the historic significance of Waitangi and nearby areas

John Key says he wont go to Te Tii Marae tomorrow if he is under a new gagging order.

It has all worked out in the end and tomorrow Key will again walk down that aisle toward Ngapuhi with a chorus of protesters as guests, writes Claire Trevett.

To help you plan your day away from the politics here's a guide to what's going on at the Treaty Grounds tomorrow and Saturday.

Te Tii Marae elders say there is a risk of deliberate attempts by protesters to block John Key going on to the marae on Friday.

Ngapuhi co-chairman Rudy Taylor said he would be talking to marae trustees about increasing security on Friday and Saturday if necessary.

Fine weather is expected across many areas of the country this long weekend - but not where it matters the most.

Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson says if John Key does not go to Te Tii Marae he will avoid it as well.

This year's Waitangi "issue" has been selected. It has been determined that the TPP is the most pressing issue on the Maori agenda, writes Jon Stokes.

John Key should be welcomed at Te Tii Marae for Waitangi Day commemorations on Friday, despite widespread anger over the TPP deal, a Ngapuhi hapu leader says.

Fittingly, New Zealand's political year always begins with formalities on marae, first at Ratana, then at Waitangi.

Prime Minister John Key says he will not gatecrash Te Tii Marae if he is not wanted after Ngapuhi elder Kingi Taurua said the Government should be denied entry.

Prime Minister John Key says he will promote the merits of the TPP free trade agreement on the lower marae at Waitangi.

The PM's Office has finally agreed to release transcripts from his post cabinet press conferences, and Audrey Young says it's a small, but important, victory.

We enjoyed the group of willow trees in Tuff Crater, Northcote, with their nesting kingfishers and rosellas.

I think Andrew Little might have had his first Tony Abbott moment at Waitangi last Friday.

If the Waitangi Tribunal is right in saying the chiefs of 1840 did not cede sovereignty when they signed the Treaty, the reason was probably that they had more practical concerns on their minds.

Andrew Little made something of "a captain's call" on Waitangi Day when suggesting notions of greater Maori sovereignty should not be dismissed.

Onlookers who rushed to a crash scene on a rural road northwest of Auckland tried to comfort the driver before he died in his upturned car.

Key was talking about the flag and downplaying the Waitangi report on sovereignty, but Little had bigger fish to fry.