Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies has published
“What parliamentarians think about Australia’s post-COVID-19 aid program: The emerging ‘cautious consensus’ in Australian aid” 
Benjamin Day, Tamas Wells
First published: 01 November 2021
https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.338 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/app5.338?utm_source=Devpolicy&utm_campaign=9f657373ee-Devpolicy+News+Dec+15+2017_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_082b498f84-9f657373ee-250032321 

Wiley also recommends other articles on aid to Africa at  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jid.3542

Although the Day and Wells article is of general interest, Africa gets only a couple of mentions:
page 7. Under the Abbott Government, ‘The geographic orientation of the aid program also shifted—towards the Pacific and away from Asia and especially Africa. ‘

Page 10. “Political and economic stability in the region was also a particular concern for many, who rec-
ognised Australia’s ‘special role … in relation to the Pacific’ (Int 8, Liberal). ‘In relation to aid and development, the vulnerabilities of the Pacific are there’, reflected one Labor MP (Int 2), noting the Pacific is ‘on trend to be the least developed part of the world on the human development index—worse than Africa, sub-Saharan Africa”