News in 5: Woman hopes to find missing fiance; Playboy's first transgender centrefold; Smacking illegal in Scotland.

1. “I hope he’s kicking back on an island with a coconut in hand.” Woman’s heartbreaking message for missing fiance.

The families of six men presumed dead after their fishing vessel sank off the Queensland coast still hold out hope of a miracle survival.

Authorities believe skipper Ben Leahy, 45, and crew members Adam Hoffman, 30, Eli Tonks, 39, Adam Bidner, 33, Chris Sammut, 34, and Zach Feeney, 28, died after the Dianne capsized off the town of 1770 on Monday night.

Speaking to the ABC, the fiance of Eli Tonks, Ana James, said he is "full of love, compassion and emotion" and that she still hopes to find him alive.

"He is a machine. Friends and family know he would not give up without a fight," Ana said.

"Most of us continue to hold onto hope that he's kicked back on one of the islands with a coconut in hand — because that's the kind of guy he is. Fearless and capable of anything."

Eli's family also released a statement, expressing gratitude for the emergency services and wider community.

"We have not given up hope and will not give up until they are found," it said, according to AAP. "Eli is a beloved partner, son, brother, friend and loving father of two."

An extensive aerial, land and sea search has failed to find the men, whose families were on Thursday night gathered in Gladstone to be briefed by authorities.

The search operation will continue on Friday morning with sounding technology to be used in an effort to find the vessel, a Queensland Police spokeswoman told AAP on Thursday.

Meanwhile, the sole known survivor, Ruben McDornan, has been reunited with his wife and mum.

Mr McDornan clung to the boat's hull for hours as his crewmates screamed for help from below deck.

He then treaded water in open seas before being saved by a couple on a passing yacht who heard his yells for help.

2. "Every woman's beauty deserves to be celebrated." Playboy features its first ever transgender model centrefold.

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Men's magazine Playboy has featured its first ever transgender 'playmate' centrefold in its November issue, a move which the model hopes will pave the way for "all women - trans or otherwise - in fashion and other sectors".

Ines Rau, a French fashion model who was featured nude in a 2014 issue of Playboy and has previously worked with Balmain and Vogue Italia, is the first transgender woman to appear as a centrefold in the magazine's 64-year history.

"Every woman's beauty deserves to be celebrated," Rau, 26, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in her first interview to the media about the feature, AAP reports.

"No one deserves to be a woman more than those who routinely suffer abuse and are treated like they're less than nothing."

The Playboy feature comes as transgender models are becoming increasingly visible in fashion brands and media. In March the French edition of Vogue featured a transgender model for the first time on its cover, as did Marie Claire Spain in 2016.

Rau said Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, an outspoken supporter of civil rights, had personally chosen her to be the magazine's first transgender playmate before he died at the age of 91 in September, and "told me he was very proud of me".

Rights groups celebrated the feature as a positive step bringing LGBT rights into the spotlight.

3. Julie Bishop slams claims that working with NZ PM Jacinda Ardern will be "awkward".

New Zealand's New Prime Minister Is Very Awkward For Julie Bishop https://t.co/yPBDvxWeQG pic.twitter.com/k2e6OiVPIu

— BuzzFeed World (@BuzzFeedWorld) October 19, 2017

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has rubbished claims that working with newly elected New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be awkward.

On Thursday it was announced Ardern, the 37-year-old Labour leader, will take the Prime Ministership, after NZ First leader Winston Peters decided to form a coalition government with Labour and end nine years of National Party rule.

Though Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop both offered their congratulations to Ardern, speculation followed regarding awkwardness in Australian-New Zealand relations.

This stems from Bishop's comments in August, following the "outing" of Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce as a New Zealand citizen - she believed Australia's Labor opposition had used its New Zealand ties to uncover the citizenship.

At the time Bishop declared she would "find it very difficult to build trust" with New Zealand's Labour party if it were to be elected into power, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

Ardern also returned fire, labelling Bishop's claims "false" and "highly regrettable".

Now, Bishop has hit out at the speculation via Twitter. She says the tension is non-existent and that Ardern was actually involved in "admonishing" the actions of a fellow Labour colleague involved in the Joyce saga.

"Rubbish. Read what I actually said. I agree entirely with Ms Ardern’s admonishment of her colleague — that his conduct was ‘unacceptable’" she tweeted.

4. Channing Tatum was working with Weinstein on a film about sexual abuse. He's just cancelled it entirely.

.@channingtatum hails 'brave women' in Facebook post as he pulls out of sexual abuse film with Weinstein Company https://t.co/fqNWF6nW1T pic.twitter.com/Q9dKVQNnr5

— ITV News (@itvnews) October 19, 2017

Channing Tatum says he's no longer developing a film with The Weinstein Co that dealt with a boy dealing with the aftermath of sexual abuse.

On Wednesday Tatum said, via Instagram, that he will not be developing anything with Harvey Weinstein's former company, which has been embroiled in sexual harassment scandals over the past two weeks.

"The brave women who had the courage to stand up and speak their truth about Harvey Weinstein are true heroes to us," Tatum's captions reads. "While we will no longer develop it or anything else that is property of TWC, we are reminded of its powerful message of healing in the wake of tragedy. This is a giant opportunity for real positive change that we proudly commit ourselves to."

The film was to be based on author Matthew Quick's book Forgive Me Leonard Peacock.

Quick also wrote Silver Linings Playbook, which The Weinstein Co developed into a film that would win star Jennifer Lawrence an Oscar.

5. Scotland is set to make smacking children illegal.

Smacking to be banned in Scotland after SNP backs legislation https://t.co/pObyqdXEax

— Telegraph News (@TelegraphNews) October 19, 2017

The smacking of children will be banned in Scotland, the Scottish Government has confirmed.

The legislation, brought forward by Greens MP John Finnie, will remove the defence of ''justifiable assault'' in Scots law, which allows parents to use physical punishment to admonish a child.

The move would make Scotland the first part of the UK to introduce a ban on smacking children, AAP reports.

A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: "Mr Finnie's proposals are not a Scottish Government Bill, however we will ensure the proposals become law.

"We believe physical punishment can have negative effects on children which can last long after the physical pain has died away."

The statement follows First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's confirmation in her program for government last month that ministers would "not oppose" the Bill.

She highlighted that about 50 countries - including France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Ireland - had already made the change.

6. More Australians are confused about sunscreen.

An increasing number of Australians are confused about the safety of sunscreen, the findings of a national survey suggests.

Statistics from the Cancer Council's National Sun Protection Survey, to be presented at the World Congress of Melanoma in Brisbane on Friday, show only 55 per cent of Australian adults recognise that it's safe to use sunscreen every day, down from 61 per cent in 2014.

The survey of 3614 adults aged 18-69 years also found 17 per cent were worried that sunscreens contain ingredients that are bad for health, while separately 20 per cent believed using sunscreen regularly would result in not having enough vitamin D, AAP reports.

The "alarming" results have been blamed on numerous sunscreen myths being pushed on social media.

"There's been a lot more social media where people have raised concerns about sunscreen whether they have experienced allergic reactions or experienced severe sunburn despite the use of sunscreen, this has attracted quite a lot of media attention," said Craig Sinclair, chair of the Cancer Council Australia's public health committee.

The reality is the weight of evidence is stronger than ever that sunscreen can have a significant impact on reducing melanoma, says Mr Sinclair.

"Sunscreens in Australia are strictly regulated by the Therapeutics Goods Administration to ensure that the ingredients they contain are safe and effective," he said.

"Australians should be confident that they can use sunscreen on a daily basis - there is no evidence to suggest the ingredients are bad for your health."