Larissa Huntington

Every week calls for pasta, but I'm a bit under the weather today, so I should probably be going for chicken soup instead.

But this one I've got for you today is a super comforting vodka pasta, so I reckon it'll do the trick.

It's really easy.

And the vodka, once it's cooked out, leaves you with a rich silky sauce.

And you just shave some parmesan on top and tear some basil leaves over.

And if you want to get some greens in there too, just serve it all up with a big green salad to balance things out.

And the latest on that is that after a meeting of National Cabinet yesterday, PM Anthony Albanese has confirmed that we're going to stay on level two of our fuel security plan.

But he also flagged that the government's working on contingencies.

He said that's because the longer that the war goes on, the more significant the implications for Australia will be.

There is some good news though.

If you drive, you might have noticed that petrol prices have dropped a little bit.

The NRMA says that the wholesale price for diesel has fallen by a dollar per litre and unleaded by 70 cents over the past couple of weeks.

And they're now flowing through to prices at the Bowser.

And on top of that, our national petrol reserves have risen from 36 days to 46 days since the start of the war.

So we've got an extra 10 days in the coffers there.

So all that considered, Albanese said that a move to level three isn't on the cards right now.

Yeah, there'd been calls to tax them more in recent weeks, but he said that they already pay around $22 billion a year, and they rely pretty heavily on investors from North America and Japan.

And some say that a tax hike would spook those investors, and the PM seems to agree with that.

He says that without those investor dollars, it'd be much harder for our gas to be extracted in the first place.

So while gas company taxes aren't looking likely, new reports say that the government has been scoping around for other ways to make our supply resilient.