Dateline Pacific morning edition for 4 September 2014

Manus Island asylum seeker 'brain dead', says advocate; Goal for women on post-2015 UN agenda; Tonga's Democratic party still confident despite losing candidates; As early voting gets underway at polling stations around Fiji we talk to an elections expert about the practice of prepolling; another reprieve for the embattled French Polynesian president Gaston Flosse; Tonga introduces historic laws to monitor deep sea mining.