Keavney was born in Drummoyne, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney in 1921 and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the
University of Sydney. She went to work at the ABC, the youngest person and the first woman to be hired as a scriptwriter by that organisation. She resigned from the
ABC in 1945. In the late 1940s she wrote serials and plays for various networks and production companies and became one of the leading writers of Australian radio. She went to London to study writing TV drama at the BBC and wrote episodes of
The Adventures of Long John Silver. She won two
Walkley Awards for her journalism. ==Select credits==