AVO tends to project FIFO approach for processing application but i doubt it. Why this is so, i can prolly explain to an extent but then no one can perfectly understand how they run their thing. Some applicants get special consideration (e.g pregnancy/health related conditions and other circumstances they deem fit for consideration). A friend was lucky to mail them and explained his wife was heavily pregnant blablabla and the wife got express PPR, same day they got the mail (apparently the medical screening done prior to the day the husband sent the mail must have served a credible proof).
I will just keep hoping till everything works out.