The quasi-contract argument does not go to the reasons for the Minister's refusal and the Magistrate may well set it aside as having no relevance.
I wonder whether such a far-reaching determination on the operational procedures of a government Department would be the proper province of and to be determined in a somewhat incidental manner by a State Magistrate's Court at all. It seems to me that it might be more appropriately taken in its own right to the State's Supreme Court, and not forgetting either that contract law is Federal law.
Your [sic] right, there has been a process in place for many years, it is called the law and I think you will find it predates MRT. Moreover, if TOG have been the ones to spot the flaw in the process of MRT all the better for them wouldn't you say.