Essendon's former sports scientist says he've never gave players illegal substances when he was at the club. Stephen Dank has told the 7:30 the players were only ever injected with vitamins. He says they were fully aware of just what that were taking and every supplement was logged in a register.

 

The federal government has announced new measures to tackle workplace bullying, it plans to set up a mechanism within the Fairwork commission to resolve complaints quickly. It also wants to give the commission a much greater powers to refer bullying complaints to the relevant state and territory authorities.

 

Former New South Wales Mining Minister Ian McDonald will be back at the state's corruption inquiry today to give more evidence, he's denied giving inside information about coal mining licenses to his former coleague Eddie Obeid. He's told the inquiry it was just by chance, a mining license was granted over land, it happened to be owned by Mr.Obeid's family.

 

And an underground explosion at a Russian coal mine has killed at least 18 people. More than 200 miners managed to escape to the surface after a tunnel collapsed. A built-up of methane gas is sort to have caused the blast.