This Australian-UK co-production tells a story which has received too little attention – but it overlooks some of the more difficult parts of Australia’s migrant history.
The most controversial aspect of Netflix’s new drama-documentary Queen Cleopatra – not least in Egypt – was the casting of a black actress, Adele James, in the title role. After all, one of the few things that seems certain about Cleopatra’s early life is that she was a Macedonian Greek. Luckily, though, the show had