Bruce Pie
# Bruce Pie

Arthur Bruce Pie (18 May 1902 – 30 July 1962) was an Australian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

## Early life

The son of Arthur Savoi Garibaldi Pie, and Annie Gertrude Pie, née Miller, Arthur Bruce Pie was born in Coburg, Victoria on 18 May 1902.

He married Jean Margaret Wright at Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensland on 24 June 1925.

## Education

He attended Caulfield Grammar School 1916–1917, and played for the school's First XVIII.

## Football

### Caulfield Grammarians (MAFA)

He played with the Caulfield Grammarians Football Club, and was its coach on 1926.

### Brisbane (QFL)

In 1924 he was captain of Brisbane Football Club, and only ceased playing for the team when he was transferred, with his employment, to Melbourne in 1925.

### Melbourne (VFL)

He also played one senior game of Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League for Melbourne in 1926.

He was the president of the Queensland National Football Association in the 1930s.

## Employment

Pie worked in Melbourne and Brisbane in the importing and textile manufacturing industries, and owned his own group of businesses.

## Political career

Pie was elected to Queensland Parliament in 1941 as an independent Democrat, but resigned to contest the seat of Brisbane in the 1943 federal election. He was defeated by the incumbent George Lawson, and re-entered the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1944 as the Member for Windsor from the Queensland People's Party (QPP).

Pie succeeded John Beals Chandler as the leader of the QPP in 1946, and served in this role until 1948. In 1950 he became the Member for Kedron as a Liberal Party politician, but he resigned from the Party following a dispute about parliamentary pay increases, and resigned from Parliament in 1951.

## Journey into Desolation

Pie visited the concentration camps of Nazi Germany in 1945 shortly after the end of the Third Reich, and published a book called Journey into Desolation (Pie, 1946) after this experience.

## Later life

Following his political career, Pie was a member and leader of several Brisbane clubs until his death.

