489 visa

Hi thankyou for letting me join
My husband and our family of three boys one girl have got the 489 visa to enter and stay/live/work in South Australia. Currently we are awaiting to sell our home here in the uk.

We have heard that we can enter Australia to open the visa’s, then return to uk until house sells, then re enter Australia to fulfill the visa requirements before we can apply for the 887 permanent visa. Just wondering if this is true as we don’t obviously want to mess this up by getting it wrong.

Many thanks Alison