Dick Healey
Richard Owen Healey was a New South Wales politician, ABC sports broadcaster, and minister of the crown in the cabinets of Sir Robert Askin, Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. From 1973 to 1975 he was Minister for Youth and Community Services, when he was made Minister for Health, which he held until the Coalition lost office in May 1976. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly foryears fromMarch 1962 until his retirement onAugust 1981 for the Liberal Party of Australia.
Healey was born onDecember 1923 in Broken Hill, New South Wales, the son of Allan Richard Healey and his wife Lurline McCloskey, and was educated at Parramatta High School. OnJune 1942, at age 18, he enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force as a Warrant officer in Canada and saw service in England and the Middle East with No. 458 Squadron RAAF during World War II. He married Winifred Mary onOctober 1945 in Brighton, England, having a daughter and two sons. On his return to Australia, he was demobilised onJanuary 1946 and worked first as a radio announcer and then as a sports editor at Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio from 1951 to 1962. He was appointed as Sports editor on ABC TV in 1956 until he entered parliament in 1962.
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