Seldom Fixit: Emphatically NO.
Pilots will not knowingly depart with insufficient oil. He problem is that the pilot manuals do not specify the minimum dispatch oil qty, nor do they adequately explain the correct time window for performing a qty check.
This information was not needed until now as engineering was on the job. The company has since changed the procedure while not ensuring that the pilots were adequately trained and informed on their new task.
QF has failed utterly by uaing wishful thinking as a management tool, and CASA has failed utterly to oversee this process change.