Monday's Australian Story is about Nicholas Cowdery QC, the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions. The uncompromising DPP is about to retire after 17 years in the role.Pic: Kate Geraghty for the smhRichard Ackland recounts the fractious relationship between Cowdery and NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos in a 2009 piece for the Sydney Morning Herald here. Recent …