Question: What was Grant hoping to win enough money to pay off?
About the article "Wake in Fright", section "Plot".

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Claude holds himself hostage in hopes of getting enough money to pay off his student loans. 
John Grant is a middle-class teacher from the big city.
He feels disgruntled because of the onerous terms of a financial bond which he signed with the government in return for receiving a tertiary education.
The bond has forced him to accept a post to the tiny school at Tiboonda, a remote township in the arid Australian Outback.
It is the start of the Christmas school holidays and Grant plans on going to Sydney to visit his girlfriend but first, however, he must travel by train to the nearby mining town of Bundanyabba (known as “The Yabba”) in order to catch a Sydney-bound flight.
At "The Yabba", Grant encounters several disconcerting residents including a policeman, Jock Crawford, who encourages Grant to drink repeated glasses of beer before introducing him to the local obsession with the gambling game of two-up.
Hoping to win enough money to pay off his bond and escape his "slavery" as an outback teacher, Grant at first has a winning streak playing two-up but then loses all his cash.
Unable now to leave "The Yabba", Grant finds himself dependent on the charity of bullying strangers while being drawn into the crude and hard-drinking lifestyle of the town's residents.
Grant reluctantly goes drinking with a resident named Tim Hynes (Al Thomas) and goes to Tim's house.
Here he meets Tim's daughter, Janette.
While he and Janette talk, several men who have gathered at the house for a drinking session question Grant's masculinity, asking: “What's the matter with him?
He'd rather talk to a woman than drink beer.” Janette then tries to initiate an awkward sexual episode with Grant, who vomits.
Grant finds refuge of a sort, staying at the shack of an alcoholic medical practitioner known as "Doc" Tydon.
Doc tells him that he and many others have had sex with Janette.
He also gives Grant pills from his medical kit, ostensibly to cure Grant's hangover.
Later, a drunk Grant participates in a barbaric kangaroo hunt with Doc and Doc's friends Dick and Joe.
The hunt culminates in Grant clumsily stabbing a wounded kangaroo to death, followed by a pointless drunken brawl between Dick and Joe and the vandalizing of a bush pub.
At night's end, Grant returns to Doc's shack, where Doc apparently initiates a homosexual encounter between the two.
A repulsed Grant leaves the next morning and walks across the desert.
He tries to hitch-hike to Sydney, but accidentally boards a truck that takes him straight back to "The Yabba".
He contemplates shooting Doc, but instead attempts suicide.
Grant recovers in hospital from his suicide attempt and Doc sees him off at "The Yabba's" rail station.
He returns to Tiboonda for the new school year.
In "The Red Peppers", a husband and wife song and dance team (Kay Walsh, Ted Ray) bicker with each other, another performer (Martita Hunt), and the theatre manager (Frank Pettingell).
In "Fumed Oak", a middle-aged man (Stanley Holloway) finally has enough of his wife, daughter, and mother-in-law (Betty Ann Davies, Dorothy Gordon, and Mary Merrall respectively).
Having saved enough money secretly, he announces to his stunned family that he is leaving, never to see them again.
In the final segment, "Ways and Means", a husband (Michael Trubshawe) informs his wife (Valerie Hobson) that he has gambled away their money, leaving little to pay their debts, especially to Olive (Jessie Royce Landis).
They pawn their last few valuable possessions, hoping to win enough in the casino.
However, Olive takes the seat the husband was waiting for and proceeds to win a great deal of money.
When she gets up, he takes his rightful place and loses all he has.
That night, the couple awake to find Olive's butler, Murdoch (Jack Warner), trying to steal from them.
After laughing at him (since they have nothing worth the effort), the wife proposes he rob from his employer and split the money with them.
Murdoch takes Olive's winnings, but double crosses the couple, only to end up caught by the police. 
Force Field.
Played during Season 1.
Everyone starts with $3,000 and wagers their money hoping a pendulum will land on a WIN space.
The game is played on a round board with a pendulum in the middle and 10 magnets arranged in a circle on the table.
For round 1, 6 areas are marked with WIN and 4 are marked LOSE and contestants can wager up to half their money.
If a WIN space is hit, the contestants win the amount of money wagered (and lose the amount if the LOSE space is hit).
For round 2, 4 areas are marked WIN is regular, one is WIN x 2 (double the wager), one WIN x 3, one WIN x 4 and there are 6 LOSE spaces.
The contestants can wager as much as they would like in the 2nd and final round.
Again, $10,000 is awarded to the player with the most money or the money is split in case of a tie.
Maximum pay $32,500.
Kollmeyer took charge of this game entirely by herself, similar to what Goodman would ultimately do with the return of "Double Dollars."
Laura is a student who works in a call centre.
One day she faints in public during a lecture because she hasn't eaten enough.
She is given the advice to sue her parents but her working class parents can't afford to pay more money.
Little later when she is at home the energy provider cuts off the power because of overdue payments.
Once the electricity is back she surfs the internet for an additional job.
Eventually she ends up on a dubious website where matured men advertise in order to get to know women.
She contacts a man called Joe who wants to pay her for keeping him company.
When they meet she is very nervous and obviously very ashamed but her experienced suitor manages to euphemize the situation.
He tells her this business was only about fantasy and nowadays everything was for sale, including fantasy fulfillment.
His payment enables her to pay bills and to have a little party.
She continues to meet men for money and Joe becomes a regular.
But while she gets used to the money she doesn't get used to what she has to do for it.
Clients overstep lines and cheat her out of her money and finally even Joe does that.
Laura suffers a breakdown.