It’s a bit over a year since the Northern Territory Government unveiled its Digital Transformation Plan — since then, the plan has moved from ambition to action.

IN JULY 2018, if all goes to plan, the Northern Territory will mark 40 years of self-governance by ­becoming Australia’s seventh state.

Such celebrations were once common across Australia, before states began to ban consumer fireworks from the 1960s onward. Now, the holdout is the Northern Territory, ...