Australia is negotiating a deal with the Philippines to transfer asylum seekers being held indefinitely in controversial detention centers on remote impoverished islands, Australia's immigration minister said on Friday.
Australia struck a deal last year with Cambodia to relocate genuine refugees from the camps, although that arrangement has struggled so far to get off the ground.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop spoke with her Philippines counterpart, Foreign Secretary Albert F. Del Rosario, about some type of similar arrangement, Australian Immigration Minister Peter Dutton told reporters.