I take it you guys being offered the January course will be staying in Melbourne after training. I was offered a place on an earlier en-route course, but the posting would have been to Melbourne.
On the topic of referees, I got in touch with one of my referees the morning I got the offer and he said, "oh yeah, I meant to tell you..."
Apparently I wasn't the only one from my assessment day with that problem. So keep in touch with both your referees.