Sydney siege tributes to be collected and kept
Sydneysiders continue to lay flowers at a memorial site near the Lindt cafe in Martin Place, (AAP) AAP
Tributes can continue to be laid at Martin Place throughout the weekend with an additional site opened outside the Lindt Cafe, the site of the fatal Sydney siege.
Condolence books will be at Martin Place until Sunday evening before being moved to the Opera House and state parliament.
They will stay there until the end of January.
"All flowers that have been laid in Martin Place will eventually be collected by the Red Cross and put into clean compost and laid at an appropriate memorial site, to be determined in consultation with the victims' families," a spokesman for NSW Premier Mike Baird said.
"Cards and notes will be collected and preserved."
The bodies of Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson were on Thursday released to their families, so funeral preparations could begin as soon as possible.
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