Abstract: Australian higher vocational education is represented by TAFE college and drived by industry. It is a relative independent, multilevel and integrated education system which combines with government, industry, middle school and primary school. During the higher vocational education development, Australian TAFE college creates school characteristics of government's support, perfect management, student-oriented policy, good mechanism, capability-oriented policy, to reinforce practice, dual-quality teacher teaching and combination of full-time and part-time teaching. Its inspiration meaning for building higher vocational education ideal school system of China is that national policy support is the important guarantee for higher vocational education's healthy development; We should build perfect vocational certificate system, strengthen the practical teaching part, improve higher vocational teaching staff construction and invest much more to it from government.