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Damage caused to an Aboriginal rock shelter by mining giant Rio Tinto in August underscores the need for better heritage protection laws and a greater say for Indigenous groups promised in this month's Voice referendum, advocates say. Rio admitted on Sept. 21 to damaging a rock shelter on Aug. 6 in Western Australia’s Pilbara region while blasting at a nearby iron ore mine. Rio is now working with the Muntulgura Guruma people to assess what had happened, it said.

Brazil’s government on Monday began removing thousands of non-Indigenous people from two native territories in a move that will affect thousands who live in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The South American nation’s intelligence agency ABIN said in a statement that the goal is to return the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacaja lands in Para state to the original peoples. It did not say whether or not the expulsion of non-Indigenous people has been entirely peaceful.

The Canadian government is set to start the process of selling a stake in the Trans Mountain oil pipeline next week.

The Supreme Court sets a precedent for land claims by restoring territory to the Xokleng people.

As Australians prepare to vote on whether Indigenous people should have a "Voice" in national policymaking, social media users have shared a false claim that a state-level scheme already in place in South Australia allows local Voice organisations to forcibly seize private property. But legal experts told AFP that these Indigenous Voice groups can only acquire property in the usual way, such as through purchases.