Table 1.

Framing matrix used to analyse the framing of sustainability in the process of developing the Australian National Food Plan

Key frames	Key aspects of frames	Prompts to identify and code data
Position	Overall description	∙Is sustainability explicitly defined? ∙How is it described?
	Importance of sustainability	∙Why is sustainability relevant? ∙What issues does it raise (health, social, economic, environmental, moral)?
Drivers	Main drivers	∙What are identified as the main drivers? ∙Is there any additional focus or emphasis of the discussion of the drivers?
Policy solutions	Existing policy	∙What are the views on existing policy?
	Proposed policy	∙What policy solutions are included and excluded? ∙What policy solutions are emphasized? ∙Who is responsible for addressing sustainability? What sectors? ∙Are the policy solutions targeted or universal?
	Opposed policy	∙What policy solutions are opposed?
Core principles	Appeals to principles	∙What principles are evident in the representation of sustainability?