Arthur Bruce Pie was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician who served in the Queensland Legislative Assembly

Queensland Legislative Assembly

The Queensland Legislative Assembly is the unicameral chamber of the Parliament of Queensland. Elections are held approximately once every three years. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting form of the Alternative Vote system...

.

He was born in Coburg, Victoria

Coburg, Victoria

Coburg is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moreland, although a handful of properties on Coburg's Eastern boundary are located in the City of Darebin...

 and attended Caulfield Grammar School

Caulfield Grammar School

Caulfield Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later...

. Pie worked in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 and Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

 in the importing and textile manufacturing industries, and owned his own group of businesses.

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

Australian federal election, 1943

Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin easily defeated the opposition Country Party led...

. He was defeated by the incumbent George Lawson

George Lawson (Australian politician)

George Lawson was an Australian trade union official and politician.Lawson was born in South Pine River, near Caboolture, Queensland and educated at Warner State School. He fought in the Boer War South Africa with the 5th Contingent in 1901-02 and was mentioned in dispatches...

, and re-entered the Queensland Legislative Assembly in 1944 as the Member for Windsor from the Queensland People's Party

Queensland People's Party

The Queensland People's Party was a conservative political party in Queensland, Australia.Created in 1943 by Brisbane Lord Mayor John Beals Chandler, the Queensland People's Party contested elections in South East Queensland. In 1948, they became the Queensland branch of the Liberal Party of...

 (QPP). Pie succeeded John Beals Chandler

John Beals Chandler

Sir John Beals Chandler was the Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1940 to 1952, and the Member for the Queensland Legislative Assembly district of Hamilton from 1943 to 1947.-Personal life:...

 as the leader of the QPP in 1946, and served in this role until 1948. In 1950 he became the Member for Kedron

Electoral district of Kedron

Kedron was the name of two incarnations of an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland.Both districts were based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and named for the suburb of Kedron. The first existed from 1950 to 1972 and the second from 1992 to...

 as a Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 politician, but he resigned from the Party following a dispute about parliamentary pay increases, and resigned from Parliament in 1951.

Pie visited the concentration camps

Nazi concentration camps

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 of Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany

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in 1945 shortly after the end of the Third Reich, and published a book called Journey into Desolation after this experience.

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