Personal Oz - essential elements: Mazda, the World Masters Bakery and Fashion

      CARS: The beautiful face of popular SUV Mazda CX-5 medium and 6 will appear on the new Mazda 3 when it arrives early next year. The redesigned compact car, now in its third generation, has a longer hood line and low roof in almost the same space as her first HUD includes brand new cockpit design and repositioned controls. The small sedan / hatch area marks a decade in production this month and last year attracted the Holden Commodore has become the favorite car in Australia. At the end of last month, Mazda 3 sales were hundreds behind the Toyota Corolla.

Philip King

Adaptation: The development of future Olympians is a costly affair. In August, NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell will cut the ribbon on a water aerobics center and $ 25 million in the western suburbs of Sydney. The 700sq m Rooty Hill complex, the two 25-meter pool, an Olympic gymnastics facility quality and housed versatile and sports medicine rehabilitation clinic. "The size of the facility is like no other of its kind in Australia," says Gymnastics NSW CEO Aaron Bloomfield. Arena gym is the home of elite athletes who move from Homebush. The center will also host non-elite athletes.

PETER KOGOY

GADGETS: Personal drones could head under the water. While drones consumption costs only a few hundred dollars has been around for some time, unmanned underwater vehicles have cost several thousand for the cheaper models. But there is hope for potential lovers submariners. OpenROV the United States sells a kit for $ 850 ($ 916), which will allow you to give without getting wet. The drone is controlled by a long strap that connects to an Ethernet port on the laptop and to record underwater journey light and a camera. It takes a week to build valid only serious amateurs.

STUART KENNEDY

COOK: One of the largest bakery in the competition on the world market, the world's Bakery Masters in Paris in March next year, 24 finalists in three categories and one of them is an Australian. Brett Noy, who owns Uncle Bob's Bakery, Brisbane, said he trained for four years, has been through several qualifying and finals, "do not sleep for two days" on learning of his selection for the Pain category (other categories are part art and Pastry: curious, no Austrians have done in the past). The press release says Masters candidates must embody the "cooking trends of tomorrow."

NECIA WILD

FASHION: Designer Oscar de la Renta, 80, showed he buys his suits from the same tailor Madrid since his youth. "I make my costumes from the grandson of the tailor made I went first," de la Renta said at an event in New York. "I was a young art student at the time and I was not interested in what I was wearing. But then I met a group of Englishmen who wanted to dress better., You are the ones who brought me to this extent." Father De La Renta wanted to join the insurance of the family. "But I do not see myself selling insurance, so I began to study art. Had I told my father I wanted to be a fashion designer, it would drop dead on the spot."