Doctor Elizabeth Morton (Lizzie) is a Senior Lecturer in the Curtin Law School working remotely from Victoria. Lizzie's aim is to empower the tax profession facing contemporary ethical and competency challenges as the digital economy evolves. Lizzie strategically positions her research and engagement across three core complimentary themes: tax compliance, the digital economy, and practitioner competencies. This area of interest reflects a prior career in practice, and therefore connectedness, with the tax profession.

Her philosophy permeates through leadership in education. Tax students represent the next generation of tax practitioners. Elizabeth's aim is to ensure future tax practitioners are digital-ready by creating opportunities for critical thinking and creating awareness of the complexities faced by practitioners in real time. The digital economy offers both fascinating opportunities to delve into contemporary interpretations of tax law whilst enabling robust, real-world practical scenarios to work through for competent, ethical outcomes for taxpayers. Along with peer-reviewed and industry journals, Elizabeth engages with industry through channels such as discussion groups, policy submissions, articles, blogs, seminars, podcasts and radio. Along with other roles, Elizabeth is on the Academic Board of the Tax Institutes as well as co-author of Bevacqua et al.’s Australian Taxation (Wiley).

Prior to academia, Elizabeth worked as an accountant in small business taxation in regional Victoria. Her professional experience includes various aspects of accounting and taxation services for all entity types, including matters in relation to capital gains tax and investments, GST and FBT compliance, as well as superannuation.

As well as other associations, Elizabeth is a Fellow of the Tax Institute, member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA), CPA, member of the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA) and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).

Awards and Scholarships

• Curtin Law School Dean’s Colleague Award 2025 Engagement and Impact Award: 2025
• RMIT AISSC Research Impact Award: 2024
• Federation University Distinguished Alumni Award (Category: Outstanding Academic or Research Achievement): 2023 Distinguished Alumna
• RMIT CoBL 2023 Learning and Teaching Awards – Research-informed teaching (highly commended): 2023
• RMIT Dean’s Research Excellence Award Level A/B: 2022
• Co-authored textbook: 2021 EPAA Award ‘Tertiary (Wholly Australian) Teaching and Learning – blended learning’: 2021, Highly Commended
• RMIT Certificate of Recognition: School of Accounting Research Award – High Achieving Early Career Researcher: 2019
• Emerging Scholar 12^th Accounting History Symposium funding recipient
• RMIT School of Accounting Teaching Excellence Award – Every Graduate Ready Award: 2018 LAW2453 Taxation 1 – Highly Commended
• RMIT Certificate of Recognition for Coordinator of Course with Good Teaching Score above 85: 2018, semester 2 (LAW2453 Taxation 1)
• RMIT Certificate of Recognition for Coordinator of Course with Overall Satisfaction Index above 85: 2018, semester 2 (LAW2453 Taxation 1)
• Accounting Forum Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing: May 2017, in recognition of the contributions made to the quality of the journal.
• Accounting Forum Certificate of Reviewing: February 2017, in recognition of the reviews made for the journal.
• AFAANZ / CAANZ / CPA Australia PhD Scholarship: 2015 – valued at A$10,000.
• Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) Scholarship: 2013-2016
• Federation Business School PhD Top-Up Scholarship: 2013-2015
• Most Meritorious Graduating Student in Honours Program: 2012
• ICAA Certificate of Merit in Taxation: 2011
• Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited Award for Income Tax Law & Practice: 2011
• University of Ballarat School of Business Awards for Excellence - CSP 50% Scholarship: 2004
• Victorian Certificate of Education: ENTER 97.0, 2003

Grants, Commissions and Tender

• Swinburne University of Technology SoBLE Research Funding: Devos, K. & Morton, E. TPB investigations and Tax Practitioner Misconduct, 2025 ($7,826).
• Short Term Training Tender (ATO): Michael Walpole (UNSW - Lead), Morton, E., Greig, L. Tax and Cryptocurrency 2023 ($12,000).
• CPA Australia (Commission): Nguyen, L., Kend, M., Morton, E., Devos, K. A comparative study of the impact of contemporary technologies on the professional codes of ethics: Australia and Vietnam, 2022 ($15,436.36).
• CPA Australia (GRPP Grant): Morton, E., Devos, K., Wallis, C. & Curran, M. The tax profession's response to the recent TPB review of the TASA 2009 code of professional conduct and related sanctions, 2022 ($10,000).
• AFAANZ (Round 1 Grant): Morton, E., Vesty, G. and Nguyen, L. Enhancing blockchain literacy across the public accounting and taxation advisory services industry, 2021 to 2022 ($6,131).