Clive Healey (4 October 1918 – 16 August 1997) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the

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from 1970 to 1988. Born in Emmaville, New South Wales, to miner Joseph Healey and Alice Stephenson, he was educated locally before becoming a boilermaker. He enlisted with the AIF in World War II, serving in the Middle East, New Guinea,

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and Borneo from 1941 to 1945. He married Gloria Kenning on 16 June 1941, with whom he had two children. After returning from the war, he joined the Labor Party in 1949, and held various positions in the ensuing years, including fourteen years on the party's state executive. He was also a director of the Western Suburbs Hospital for many years. In 1970, a joint sitting of parliament elected Healey to the

as a Labor member to a term ending in 1982. The Legislative Council was reformed as a directly elected body and he was elected at the first direct election in 1978 to a 9 year term ending in 1987. In 1982, he was one of three Labor MLCs to vote against their own government's bill to decriminalise homosexual activity between consenting adults in New South Wales. In 1981 the term of members elected in 1978 were extended until 1988. Although he never became a minister in his nearly eighteen years in parliament, he was Chairman of Committees from 8 November 1978 until his retirement on 22 February 1988. Healey, a Methodist, died at Enfield on and his funeral was held at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Healey, Clive 1918 births 1997 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council Australian boilermakers Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales 20th-century Australian politicians Chairman of Committees of the New South Wales Legislative Council Australian Army personnel of World War II