Hi,
I applied for my partner visa after just over 4 years of marriage in Dec 2014, I live in the UK and my Australian citizen husband lives in Australia, I thought I'd get the temporary partner visa but actually received both the temporary and permanent visa on the same day last October, just over 10 months after the original submission. It caught me out as I now have to apply for permanent visa's for my children (from a previous partner, now I have consent) when I thought I'd have a two year window to add them to my temporary visa. It's all good I hope and we will all eventually end up in Australia together...