Scott Morrison kicks off his 2021 working year with western Queensland drought, flood recovery tour

As the Prime Minister’s plane landed in Winton in drought-stricken western Queensland the heavens opened up and the rain came down.

Scott Morrison’s first agenda item after his summer holiday was not a return to dealing with the coronavirus crisis from the confines of Parliament House, but a tour of outback communities trying to bounce back from years of drought and the devastating 2019 floods.

His arrival to the Winton Saleyards on Tuesday afternoon coincided with a sun…