Healey was encouraged to enter into State politics by the then Liberal Leader
Robert Askin and he was preselected to contest the seat of
Wakehurst, a new seat with a notional Liberal majority, at the
1962 election. He was duly elected with 51.7% of the vote and went on to hold it a further two times in 1965 and 1968. After divorcing his first wife, Healey married Doreen Robins on 8 August 1963. He soon became a member of the Coalition Government, Liberal Party under Sir Robert Askin and the
Country Party under
Sir Charles Cutler, which swept into Government in 1965 after almost 25 years of Labor government. He attended the official opening of
The Forest High School as Member for Wakehurst on 24 October 1964, and later the official opening of
Davidson High School as Member for Davidson in 1974. On 3 December 1973, Healey was appointed a Minister of the Crown as Minister for Youth and Community Services until 3 January 1975. In 1975 he took over one of the most difficult portfolios, Minister for Health, a position he held until the defeat of the
Sir Eric Willis Government in 1976. He held his seat of Davidson for a further three times in 1973, 1976 and 1978 until he retired after losing a pre-selection contest to
Terry Metherell on 28 August 1981. ==Later life==