Libya works out as well as everything else Gillard and Rudd touched In 2011 Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd brought their management style to Libya: Ms Gillard, who has spoken to President Barack Obama about the Libya issue, said both she and Mr Rudd shared the same concerns about the people of Libya... I want the UN Security Council to consider a no-fly zone. We want to see further action to protect the people of Libya," she said, adding that she was pleased both the US government and NATO were working on "contingency planning." Kevin Rudd and I are talking about exactly the same thing - we view as absolutely revolting and repugnant the violence we are seeing against the people of Libya, we are calling on Colonel Gaddafi to cease this violence and go. Now the Islamic State has its first city outside Syria and Iraq: On a chilly night, bearded militants gathered at a stage strung with colourful lights in Darna, a Mediterranean coastal city long notorious as Libya's centre for jihadi radicals. With a roaring chant, they pledged their allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group. With that meeting 10 days ago, the militants dragged Darna into becoming the first city outside of Iraq and Syria to join the "caliphate" announced by the extremist group. Already, the city has seen religious courts ordering killings in public, floggings of residents accused of violating sharia, as well as enforced segregation of male and female students. Opponents of the militants have gone into hiding or fled, terrorised by a string of slayings aimed at silencing them... A new Islamic State "emir" now leads the city, identified as Mohammed Abdullah, a little-known Yemeni militant sent from Syria... The vow of allegiance in Darna gives the Islamic State group a foothold in Libya, an oil-rich North African nation whose central government control has collapsed in the chaos since the 2011 ouster and death of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi.